I cannot accept that, what you have written, but since we are looking at history, I look for answers as well, and for past history tells me so, VHS versus BetaMax, Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD.
At the moment Flash is a good platform, and widely used, Browser wise, you can go to a customer and have some confidence that the customer will not turn around and say Flash is not going to work as not enough people have it. So tomorrow as you say let us speculate that Silverlight improves, but Flash improves more, it would still come down to the confidence in the customer primarily. (Of course if Flash turns nasty then even if the customer has confidence in the numbers the developer may want to look elsewhere. But I digress.) So what could change that confidence in the customer, regards numbers? Microsoft boots the Flash player out of future versions of Windows, whatever form that takes, in favour of Silverlight. Microsoft wouldn't do that would they? That wouldn't be a level playing field would it? They wouldn't make life harder for end users just to win this war would they? That wouldn't be monopolistic would it? What does history tell me? Anyway just my 0.02 cents worth. On May 20, 7:36 pm, "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :) > > Sparkle was the code name for Blend for a start, Jolt is probably the > codename you're searching for with Silverlight, so if you're going to trash > mah product, do so with the right name ;) > > A lot of reasons go into why we have Flash at present, mostly they centre > around the word "legacy". Today Microsoft still uses Flash simply because we > helped give birth Flash as well seeded it's actual growth via previous > couplings of Flash in all Windows XP installs (that's a hefty machine to > migrate across). Tomorrow, Silverlight will be our future, will it happen > over night? Nope, but its where we are heading and if you want to keep > score, that's fine, personally you'll be worth more to your customers on > what type of solutions are being built and how they can suite their needs > further instead of "Microsoft is using Flash, Adobe is using Windows Vista, > Microsoft is using PDF, Adobe is installing Flash Lite on Windows Mobile?" > scoring. > > As in the end that yields what? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
