New Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias 251
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An anonymous reader writes with this quote from a story at El Reg about an early look at the Silverlight 4 beta:
"There are ... major changes to Silverlight's out-of-browser functionality, a loose equivalent to Adobe Systems' AIR runtime for Flash. Even when fully sandboxed, which means having the same permissions that would apply to a browser-hosted Silverlight applet, out-of-browser applications get an HTML control, custom window settings, and the ability to fire pop-up notifications. ... Unfortunately, some of these features are not what they first appear. The HTML control in Silverlight 4 is not a new embedded browser from Microsoft, but uses components from Internet Explorer on Windows, or Safari on the Mac, which means that the same content might render differently. The HTML control only works out-of-browser, and simply displays a blank space if browser-hosted. Clipboard support is text-only in the Silverlight 4 beta, though this could change for the full release. More seriously, COM automation is a Windows-only feature, introducing differentiation between the Mac and Windows implementations."
Re:COM Automation = ActiveX (Score:5, Funny)
New Silverlight features have Windows bias? (Score:4, Funny)
Pope discovered to be Catholic
Bears recorded shitting in woods.
Re:COM Automation = ActiveX (Score:3, Funny)
So what you're saying is that any time now they'll announce Windows 9 will be written in Silverlight!
MS releases Silverlight 4, nobody cares (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft today announced the release of version 4.0 of its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe’s Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found [today.com].
“We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight,” announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. “NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. My options are underwater, my resumé’s a car crash, Google won’t call me back. My life is an exercise in futility. I’m the walking dead, man. The walking dead.”
Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 96% of all computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.
“But it’s got DRM!” cried Guthrie. “Netflix loved it! And web developers love us too, after all we did for them with IE 6. Wait, come back! We’ll put porn on it! Free porn!”
Similar Microsoft initiatives include its XPS replacement for Adobe PDF, its HD Photo replacement for JPEG photographs and its earlier Liquid Motion attempt to replace Flash. Also, that CD-ROM format Vista defaults to which no other computers can read.
In a Microsoft internal security sweep, Guthrie’s own desktop was found to still be running Windows XP.
Re:Quick, someone notify Miguel! (Score:1, Funny)
Stick Your Hand Up My Ass
If I publicly whore for microsoft can I get them to do that to me. I like hands up my ass.
Re:History (Score:4, Funny)
Who the fuck cares? Just how many people actually use Silverlight anyways?
"Back in the day" when Netscape was king, how many people used IE? Microsoft will keep pounding away with Silverlight to the large "enterprise" clients, and eventually, one day, it will pass Flash. At that point, AOL will merge with Adobe, and it'll be all over.
Surprise surprise (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft software quality again.
Seriously, is anyone not payed by microsoft using this Silverlight stuff?
Re:sorry (Score:3, Funny)
Re:History (Score:3, Funny)
boo-ya!!!
Zune is sooo much better than the iPod. Anyone who thinks the iPod is a good music platform is just flat out wrong.