Comments on: Silverlight Wants to Take Over the iPhone http://www.gsmdome.com/microsoft/silverlight-wants-to-take-over-the-iphone_615 The mobile news factory! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: t the dev http://www.gsmdome.com/microsoft/silverlight-wants-to-take-over-the-iphone_615/comment-page-1#comment-27 t the dev Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:07:20 +0000 http://www.gsmdome.com/?p=615#comment-27 "This means hard times ahead for Adobe", I think not! The Flash Player 9 is on 98% of all computers. One out of 4 people have access to a computer with Silverlight 1. This does not mean 1 out of 4 computers, this means a computer you should have access to has the Silverlight plugin installed. Like the one on you co workers desk or at the library. <br><br>Microsoft pays the company to use the technology, the company does not pay them. Have you met any one who uses Blend for actual web design, I sure haven't. I only have a copy of expressions since MS offered the company I work for a million to use Silverlight for displaying our videos but the numbers didn't match up. It would of cost us over 60 percent our active users due to forcing them to change from a technology which worked already and they already knew how to operate. People do not like plugins, why bring another when it took so long to get people to believe in the one. “This means hard times ahead for Adobe”, I think not! The Flash Player 9 is on 98% of all computers. One out of 4 people have access to a computer with Silverlight 1. This does not mean 1 out of 4 computers, this means a computer you should have access to has the Silverlight plugin installed. Like the one on you co workers desk or at the library.

Microsoft pays the company to use the technology, the company does not pay them. Have you met any one who uses Blend for actual web design, I sure haven't. I only have a copy of expressions since MS offered the company I work for a million to use Silverlight for displaying our videos but the numbers didn't match up. It would of cost us over 60 percent our active users due to forcing them to change from a technology which worked already and they already knew how to operate. People do not like plugins, why bring another when it took so long to get people to believe in the one.

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