The (not so) hidden goals of Prism, AIR and Silverlight
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| Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla are platform vendors. Adobe pushes Flash,
| Microsoft pushes .Net and we, at Mozilla, push the Open Web. And recently,
| Adobe has announced AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), Microsoft has announced
| Silverlight and some people at Mozilla are working on Prism. Why these three
| organizations have been doing this recently? To extend their application
| development platforms (and leverage their numerous developers) to places
| where it is either weak or non-existent before:
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| 1. Adobe pushed Flash from the browser to the desktop with AIR
| 2. Microsoft pushed the .Net stuff from Windows to the browser
| 3. Mozilla pushed the Open Web technologies from the browser to the
| desktop
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| So, in a way, Adobe and Mozilla moves are the same, except that Adobe
| promotes their proprietary technologies, while Mozilla promotes the Open Web
| and make its applications easier to use and more integrated with the desktop.
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http://standblog.org/blog/?q=prism%2Badobe
Related:
Silverlight is about The Microsoft Web.
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| Sorry, but I have to say something very rude. You clearly don't know
| what you're talking about. That is Microsoft PR talking. Can you say
| "credibility loss".
|
| Silverlight is about The Microsoft Web
|
| Silverlight is not about the World Wide Web. It's about The Microsoft
| Web. It's about getting fools to rally around Microsoft. After all of
| this time and experience with Microsoft, anybody with half a brain
| will be smart enough to avoid doing that. The last thing you want to
| be is dependent on Microsoft and set yourself up to be a DIRECT
| competitor with "Microsoft Cloud Services" down the road. Dumb.
| Foolish. Stupid. Smart investors won't invest one dime in your
| company and might even short your stock.
|
| Remember, it's Microsoft's cloud. Microsoft is not investing in
| huge datacenters all around the world for no reason. And, Microsoft
| will do whatever it takes, including operating that new online
| services business at a huge loss, to starve off any smaller
| competitor that foolishly chose to develop on the Silverlight
| platform. Microsoft sold $44 BILLION and cleared $18 BILLION
| profit last year. How many billions did you make last year?
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http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11406-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=33334&messageID=613757
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon for
| network applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
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