The threat in my eyes is that Flash owns video on the web now. Media players for video are blasé and they are too heavy in comparison to Flash. If MS wants to be a player, they either need to make a move or get in bed with Adobe. I guess the difference being, is that MS could have bought Macromedia.
Ive never liked Flash in websites, I always thought it was too heavy there, and call me old school, but I dont need a show just to visit a site. But with the advent of YouTube, Flash is kicking ass in the video arena, has gained a whole new life, and nobody is coming close to touching it. MS needs a flash type tool and player of its own if it wants to become a media darling (again?). From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 8:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Silverlight? Marc, Do you have any inside knowledge on this product? Or is this just your speculation? Having talked to a few people in the WT&P group, Silverlight started off as a defensive measure to ward off Adobe. When Macromedia owned Flash, no one at Microsoft really cared that much about it. Now that Adobe owns it, people felt that Microsoft couldnt stand still. Nothing to do with waiting for someone else to make it successful and then copying it. More to do with we cant sit buy and have no response As for innovation Im sure Microsoft was the first vendor to put a scroll wheel on a mouse. I think everyone has them these days. Im sure theyve done a few other things during their time as well. Cheers Ken From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 30 December 2007 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Silverlight? This is the Microsoft MO and has been for years. They have never innovated anything in the history of their existence. Well, Microsoft Bob maybe, hah. Wait for someone else to succeed in doing it right, copy them and use monopolistic business practices to crush them. There are a million examples but you already know them all. Things are changing however, Microsofts, wait, bait, obliterate, strategy plan is losing legs against companies like Google. Mostly because the world consumers are being less dependent on the operating system and more dependent on the services the internet provides as a platform. But even there Microsoft is trying their damndest to clone everything that Google and the likes are doing. -Marc Maiffret Freelance Security Consultant http://www.marcmaiffret.com From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Silverlight? Just what the world needs - a new VHS vs. Beta war. How many of these crusades (challenging the estabilshed leader in web/Internet technology) have been outright winners for MS since Internet Explorer? Will they ever learn? The effort and investment would be better spent on moving the technology to an open standard. Carl _____ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Silverlight? Well, I think that Flash is evil. Silverlight actually can do some things that Flash cant and from a development perspective is much easier to use. Im certain that Flash can do things that Silverlight cant. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Silverlight? Glad to have another attack vector integrated into your browser that does the same thing as another well-established product? No thanks - I'll pass (for now). On Dec 27, 2007 2:20 PM, Rod Trent < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you've messed with it at all from a development standpoint, you really like it. If you've watched the news, there are a lot of sites already on board with it. Personally, I'm glad to see something else besides Flash come out. Now, if we could just rid ourselves of this PDF stuff ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
