Posted on 03/25/2010 11:51:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Microsoft’s Silverlight client may have finally reached critical mass, with installation on more than 60 percent of all Internet devices, according to one Microsoft exec. Brad Becker, director of product management for rich client platforms at Microsoft, told us in a phone interview that the rich Internet application plugin has seen strong momentum recently, with the percentage of Internet devices the Silverlight client has been installed on increasing by a third — to 60 percent from 45 percent — in just the last four months.
The news that Silverlight has finally surpassed the 50 percent-mark comes on the heels of Microsoft’s touting of new features added to the framework at its MIX10 developer’s conference last week. With the release of Silverlight 4, Microsoft is taking a big step toward extending the Silverlight client beyond the desktop and onto mobile devices, where it will be the de facto application platform for Windows Phone 7 smartphones. Add to that out-of-browser support on the desktop, and Microsoft has made it easy for businesses to develop apps that can transfer data from the PC to mobile devices without having to build out multiple applications.
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Some of these devices will start migrating towards HTML 5. HOwever in my opinion silverlight is pretty good and I have never had an issue with it, unlike Flash.
Another Microsoft piece of cr**?
I needeth it not.
My household has been Microsoft free for years now, and we’ve rebuilt nothing, crashed nothing...just computing competency - something unattainable by the Yugo of operating systems.
ping...........
Aye. Flash has been horrible in the past couple years. I think their success went to their head.
Silverlight is actually pretty decent. It will allow professional developers to stop having to mess with the unfinished college project known at HTML.
It works quite well and scales excellent.
As I understand it, there is already an Open Source version available called Moonlight, which was developed with MS's blessing.
The tech isn't evil, even if you believe the company is.
Flash truly is garbage. Still no 64bit flash for Windows.. After Vista and now 7 64bit are fairly common and will just get moreso as 32bit fades away. It’s been ‘coming’ for 3 years.
Also, the performance is dog slow in general. Silverlight is a far FAR better product. It’s too bad Flash got so embedded, I hope that will change. I’m not a big Microsoft fan, but if Flash would die off things would be much, much better.
He says he needeth it not, which in layman’s terms means he refuses to even listen to anything and would prefer just to insult if need be.
I guess the Reverend wouldn't listen, either.
Fanatics! What can you do?
We're not Microsoft-free yet (even my cellphone) though for a couple of cases where I suspect flaky electronics Windows hasn't been bad. Just slow.
Linux has become pretty good, though Xubuntu 9.10 was massively unstable on my system. (Xubuntu 9.04 works extremely well.)
What issues have you had with Flash? Working on a graphing component which utilizes right now.
Mostly flash based ad’s. I have often had a website completely stop responding when I go to them or slow to a snails pace. Often whenever Firefox memory leaks(hey Mozilla that issue still exists!)one single flash ad will bring the whole browser to a halt.
They are all competitors to each other java vs flash vs silverlight.
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