Linked by jayson.knight on Tue 1st May 2007 18:03 UTC
Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add support for dynamic languages. At the Mix '07 Web developer and designer conference, Microsoft executives said the company will allow .Net developers to create applications for Silverlight, its alternative to Adobe Systems' Flash format. Microsoft on Monday released an alpha version of Silverlight 1.1 that will allow people to write applications using .Net applications such as C#. Version 1.0 of Silverlight will be available this summer.
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"Linux desktop marketshare is large enough for Adobe to make a Linux version of Flash."
Adobe and Microsoft are two entirely different companies with entirely different business models. To my knowledge, this will be the first product they are directly competing with each other on.
The point is that regardless if MS writes a Linux version or not, there will be a Silverlight runtime for Linux written by someone somewhere.