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Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

JeffH — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:56:32 -0000

As usual, another piece of garbage from Microsoft. I just want to remove it from my computer.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Will — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:54:20 -0000

Silverlight 1 works on Mac and PC, Silverligth 2 works on Intel Macs and PC. Moonlight (open source port of Silverlight) is being ported now to all major distros of Linux. Stop whining for whining's sake...

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

John — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:12:22 -0000

Actually, the non-US part of your comment should be directed at NBC. The reason you can not view outside the US is because NBC has an exclusive contract to show the Olympics IN THE US ONLY. The restriction has nothing to do with Silverlight.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

John — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:09:50 -0000

Uh, did you try installing Moonlight?
http://www.mono-project.com...

This should allow you to view Silverlight on Linux.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Scott Hanselman — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:29 -0000

Hm, what video plugin is a W3C standard?

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

sean01 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:58:29 -0000

I see flash is gone in 2 years!

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

TheLaw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:06:14 -0000

good to have competition. Right now Adobe costs everyone plenty by having a virtual monopoly thanks to the US Government's inability to care about enforcing antitrust measures. I've had a very good experience with Silverlight and works well, especially for a first attempt.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Pascal V — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:14:07 -0000

1) I had to reboot the computer to get silverlight working ... minus one

2) Once back online, you are stuck with a page with a white area till you click on a picture video
=> not good design

3) After all that you are told to back away if you are not from the USA !!!
Thanks Silverlight for helping closing the borders of the web ! ... especially for the Olympics ! How symbolic this is

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

russ — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:26:09 -0000

It's funny though that they still used Flex for the app on the home page to choose the videos to watch. I guess they wanted to make sure "everyone" could see that part.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

George — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:50:00 -0000

Itâ€™s just wrong for NBC to use MICROSOFT technology for providing Olympic content. They should be using W3C.org standards. They are blocking Linux and other non Windows users (BSD, Solaris, UNIX, â€¦).

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

David — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:37:34 -0000

Has anyone seen large live events such as the Olympics or the Primary Elections using Flash? No, because it cannot be scaled. There is a reason why CNN.com uses Windows Media for their live streams.
Flash is great for on demand (YouTube), but is not ready for primetime for huge single live events. Ustream.tv Justin.tv do not count. Those are simultaneous, low-trafficked channels.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Adam — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:13:51 -0000

You seem to have forgotten the option for 'Couldn't see anything as I'm on Linux'? Nice one MS!

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Alex (send SMS from PC) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:26:57 -0000

Installed. No problem here. One thing I've noticed Silverlight could do better than flesh is ability to have full screen transparent scalable animation without affecting performance much...

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Yvette — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:43:23 -0000

I didn't have to download because I think I must have done so for some other video in the past. The streaming video and sound was surprisingly good quality. No glitches or jumps and it never froze. I don't know if that's because I was watching in the wee hours for a first round rain delayed tennis match.
So far, I'm a big fan.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Marc Jarman — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:55:28 -0000

Is YouTube was H.264 now - not Flash.

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Nick Kwiatkowski — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:04:32 -0000

If the Silverlight implantation of the Olympics coverage would bring anything more to the table that the Flash version does (really, 4 video feeds? what, is this CNN's political coverage?) then I might be happier with it. I mean, besides the fact you have to install some bloatware that makes my Mac unhappy, but I digress. Had they done something as innovative as http://www.amgentourofcalif... I think it would have been palatable. Microsoft, this just screams "I want to be popular too! Look I can do 4 video feeds!!". Meh.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Michael — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:35:20 -0000

Silverlight is poise to be the dominant RIA in the near future because of its advance architecture. And considering the ecosystem thats built around .NET's framework from servers to developer and designer tools, quite formidable.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

polyGeek — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:26:33 -0000

How many times do people dis the quality of video at youTube and blame it on Flash? Think about it: who puts video up on youTube? Mostly amateurs with consumer recorders that ends up being compressed multiple times before we see it.

Ya think maybe the video you're seeing from the Olympics might be done by professionals with high end digital recorders?

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Ryan Stewart — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:16:44 -0000

Ummmm. Use a microphone?

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

PaulGlazowski — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:57:11 -0000

Oh, yeah, I forgot about PPC. I was using PPC for a long while, too. Only switched to Intel-powered late last year after a long stint with a PowerBook G4. Those were the days. I couldn't even watch YouTube without video regularly stuttering.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

PaulGlazowski — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:55:50 -0000

No problemo.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

Eric — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:19:58 -0000

The silverlight 2.0 is not available for PPC macs... so I'm out. :-(

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

dorren — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:57:33 -0000

oops, I posted the wrong reply. Sorry. Got too many tabs open and lost the track.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

dorren — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:54:30 -0000

"there is nothing that can be done in flex/flash that cannot be done in silverlight 2.0"

Show me how to code a multithreaded responsive app in Flex/Flash then.

Re: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes (Poll)

PaulGlazowski — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:49:44 -0000

That's key. Enjoying what's on your computer display is what sends it home. You don't tire of it. Well, except for the advertisements :-)