Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Mar 2009 22:55 UTC
"As expected, Silverlight 3 was announced today at MIX09, this year's iteration of Microsoft's annual conference for web developers, designers, and enthusiasts. While the keynote that just finished was full of little announcements that were handed out faster than the audience could swallow them, the one that stood out the most was the third iteration of Microsoft's Flash alternative, Silverlight. Links for the first and last beta of Silverlight 3, and the many development tools surrounding it, went live earlier today."
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2005-09-17
The success of technologies like this one, or before it, Flash, do not rely one bit on public acceptance, but on the relevance that 3rd party developers bring to it. Users do not install Real Player, QuickTime, WMV codecs, Flash or, for that matter, Silverlight because they like them, but because they need to in order to use something they like.
Flash succeeded because it was damn easy for non-rocket-science-engineers to get started and spit things users wanted to use. If there is no same thing for Silverlight (and Windows-only will not get too far for graphic oriented professionals), there'll be no cookies for Microsoft, no matter how cool (or opensource) the underlying technology is.
Edited 2009-03-20 10:07 UTC