Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 22:19 UTC
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[3]: Comment by satan666
by jpobst on Wed 4th Jun 2008 04:11
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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.
You are of course welcome to not use Moonlight, but to say it isn't officially acknowledged by Microsoft is completely false.
Here is the Microsoft press release on Microsoft's site about it: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-04Silverligh...
RE[4]: Comment by satan666
by leos on Wed 4th Jun 2008 04:53
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Here is the Microsoft press release on Microsoft's site about it: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-04Silverligh...
Interesting. That's the first official mention I've seen. Then again, the official silverlight site (http://silverlight.net/) has absolutely no mention of linux anywhere, not even some indication that it could be eventually a supported platform. So for now I wouldn't put too much stock in that press release.
Edited 2008-06-04 04:54 UTC
RE[4]: Comment by satan666
by lemur2 on Wed 4th Jun 2008 04:55
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"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.
You are of course welcome to not use Moonlight, but to say it isn't officially acknowledged by Microsoft is completely false.
Here is the Microsoft press release on Microsoft's site about it: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07/09-04Silverligh... "
The "officially acknowledged" bit is off the mark ... but the "could be obsoleted or dropped by Microsoft at any time" observation is absolutely spot on.
1. Moonlight = Binary codecs, available only from Microsoft.
2. Microsoft counts Linux as its major threat.
You do the math.
RE[3]: Comment by satan666
by stabbyjones on Wed 4th Jun 2008 04:11
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Flash works alright for me on Linux. And the open source implementations like gnash are starting to mature.
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.
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.
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