Microsoft Gives Silverlight a Shine
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| Microsoft is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight
| browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web,
| the company revealed Monday.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131397/article.html
.NET is a patents-encumbered technology.
Related:
Why Microsoft Silverlight Will Fail.
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| My main reasons (And please, correct me if I am wrong):
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| * No IDE for me - The development path is currently platform
| specific to Windows. Not even an open compiler or server side
| compiler for Linux is available. Use Expression Blend on my
| Mac? Not happening.
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| * No plug in for Linux - Even Adobe has managed to deliver it's
| modern plugin to Linux users. I only use Linux as a server
| platform, but with Ubuntu, etc making inroads on the desktop,
| it's nice to have it as an option.
|
| [...]
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http://visualrinse.com/2007/04/16/why-microsoft-silverlight-will-fail/
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