____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 03 January 2008 18:21 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> First Look: Popfly
>> Popfly for Silverlight: a beta glimpse.
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Linux Left Out
>>|
>>| The animations are equal to those of Flash in terms of quality. However,
>>| Popfly does have one flaw, which is no Linux support. Novell Inc. is
>>| developing a Linux version of Silverlight called "Moonlight." Whether
>>| Microsoft likes it or not, Linux is here to stay and is a growing force on
>>| the desktop thanks to universal-audience distributions such as Ubuntu.
>>| Popfly could help Silverlight garner new users quickly, but the platform
>>| still has a long way to go. After all, Silverlight is a first-generation
>>| platform, whereas Flash has had eight additional software generations to
>>| achieve its market penetration.
>> `----
>>
>> http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=930
>>
>> The the "Microsoft Web". Microsoft calls shots and decide who enters and who
>> is denied proper access.
>>
>
> Microsoft will merely become irrelevant in the mobility and appliance
> driven Web 3.0
It fight back though. It already 'bribes' Novell to give developers the
illusion that Silverlight is cross-platform.
At the end, Silverlight is doomed to fail (writers say so) because too many
people will complain about sites that use Microsoft XAML. It's another
attempted activeX generation, and just you wait until security issues strike
(running untrusted application from the Web right on your desktop, from
virtually any arbitrary site).
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