Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 17:45 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version that runs on Mac OS X (which is even available from the Apple web site). The last step is Linux, and Microsoft is working with Novell and Mono to make this happen."
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2005-06-30
I don't think we'll see that happening, MS needs all the help they can get to take on Java, Netscape, Visual Basic, ICQ and Real/QT all at one go...
Well, lets see what happened to them: Sun nearly went out of relevance if it weren't so powerful in the network arena, Netscape just went bust, bought off by AOL and is still doing badly. Visual Basic's development practically stalled since the change to .NET and MSN is still working on swallowing the entire young generation of ICQ/alternative users. Real is limping with the little who still know them while quicktime is also practically used with high-end and mac users. WMV and WMA dominates even the porn arena! Not to mention the standard mpg mp4 yadayada
I'm missing things here, esp the other important examples but those above are all done at the same time frame and yet, other than ICQ, the others practically lost.
I'm sick of fighting MS but hey --- there aren't many others to fight... I'd rather fight a couple of small companies than fight a Goliath, and yet there can still be people lamenting over that stupid Goliath.
Edited 2007-08-16 15:04