That is what they used to let people watch Sunday Night Football online, right?
This story reads like a software engineering version of speculation on North Korea’s political landscape.
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As a platform, Apple is more closed than Windows and I can't stand the arrogance of Apple zealots. I used Unix for my first 15 years in the industry, so I like Linux, but from a mass market point of view, people seem to want everything for free. So MS is right for me at this time.
That being said, Microsoft stepped in it and now they are trying to backtrack. They pushed Silverlight big time. Now they want to change their mind?
I chose Silverlight to do a development project I am currently working on, as many others have. Now they seem to want to shift focus away from it after pushing it. There are a lot of people pissed about this.
It's not that suprising - again, as much as I generally support MS, they do have a way of pushing a technology then just tossing it aside in favor of the "new way".
I look back and think about the countless hours I could have spent (and know others who have) learning various technologies that they just cast aside. Just recently, LINQ to SQL was going to be the "big thing", but then they decided that Entity Framework is the "right way".
Some changes are understandable because the world of technology dictates a change, but others frustrate you because they push and push a technology as the "next big thing" or the "right way" and then just abandon it in favor of something else - almost not realizing that people spent time and resources because of their PR and advice.
There’s no reason for Silverlight to be in any trouble. It has the momentum of all the MS development subplatforms (.Net etc), by being part of the MS dev kit there’s a bunch of people that will code for it because it’s functionally free (they’re going to buy Visual Studio one way or the other). Add to that the fact that only Apple seems to actually support HTML5 and everybody is pretty sick of what an unstable pig Flash is, on the use side the world is ripe for Silverlight to strike.