Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Mar 2008 09:58 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Apparantly, Silverlight is doing well. It was announced [.wmv] at a MIX '08 keynote that Silverlight is being installed on internet users' machines at a rate of 1.5 million per day. Silverlight is being used in places like Netflix and to webcast over 3000 hours of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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RE: 1.5 million downloads / day
by sbergman27 on Tue 11th Mar 2008 10:42
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Call me skeptic, but I find that figure very hard to believe. In a month they would reach est. half a billion downloads, someone at the PR department should be fired (or get a raise).
Don't look now, but I think your decimal point just jumped the track. ;-)
1.5E06 * 30 = 45E06
I believe that's about in line with what Firefox 1.0 got.
RE: 1.5 million downloads / day
by jayson.knight on Tue 11th Mar 2008 17:18
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Call me skeptic, but I find that figure very hard to believe. In a month they would reach est. half a billion downloads, someone at the PR department should be fired (or get a raise).
Your math is way off. 1.5 x 30 = 45, which is 455 million downloads short of half a billion.
RE[2]: 1.5 million downloads / day
by FunkyELF on Tue 11th Mar 2008 19:09
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RE: 1.5 million downloads / day
by steverez1 on Tue 11th Mar 2008 19:42
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RE: 1.5 million downloads / day
by tomcat on Thu 13th Mar 2008 16:30
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Call me skeptic, but I find that figure very hard to believe. In a month they would reach est. half a billion downloads, someone at the PR department should be fired (or get a raise).
Keep in mind that MS has quite a reach. It can put Silverlight on a lot of commonly-used pages (msn.com, live.com, microsoft.com, advertising, and third-party deals such as Netflix and Facebook) and generate traffic to Silverlight without too much trouble. Many users will install anything that has Microsoft's signature on it. Point is, the downloads don't need to come from one particular site; similarly, the phenomenon we may be witnessing may have to do with people owning multiple machines and accessing the same sites (desktop and laptop).
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Call me skeptic, but I find that figure very hard to believe. In a month they would reach est. half a billion downloads, someone at the PR department should be fired (or get a raise).