Star IE8 Beta 2 in August, XP Lifespan Extended for ULPCs
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 22:19 UTC
Microsoft During his last public speech for Microsoft as Chairman of the company, at TechEd 2008, Bill Gates made some interesting announcements regarding Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.0. In the meantime, Windows XP made the headline news at CompuTex.
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RE[2]: Comment by satan666
by leos on Wed 4th Jun 2008 02:54 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by satan666"
leos
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As for Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight; given the crap quality of the Flash plugin by Adobe on non-Microsoft platforms (and even on Microsoft platforms)


Flash works alright for me on Linux. And the open source implementations like gnash are starting to mature.

I would have thought that the non-Microsoft OS users would be the first to celebrate.


Absolutely not. I would much rather have a somewhat inferior official Linux version of the Flash plugin than Moonlight, which isn't even officially acknowledged by Microsoft, and could be obsoleted or shut down by Microsoft at some point in the future.

Maybe if Adobe was subject to some competition, they might actually get off their behinds and hire some decent *NIX programmers who know how to programme.


Competition is good, but I will complain to any website that uses Silverlight. It's a big threat to alternate platforms. It's pretty common sense not to let the dominant OS maker also control a big web media delivery mechanism. Adobe is not great, but at least they have no motivation to lock out competing platforms.

Firefox 3.0 is a great browser, but I am hesitant right now given the number of unfixed bugs in their nightly builds and in some cases, regressions that are occuring.


Really? So far I've had nothing but good experiences with Firefox 3. But I guess there are lots of system variations. Hopefully your issues get addressed before release.

Edited 2008-06-04 02:57 UTC

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