Silverlight is designed to compete with Flash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
XPS is designed to compete with Aodbe's PDF format. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061015-7992.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Paper_Specification You have to marvel at the irony of someone who crows on and on about monopolies to cry about competition in dominant media formats. > -----Original Message----- > Maybe I'm wrong, but I see Adobe Acrobat and Silverlight as apples > & > oranges. From my breif googling of Silverlight it appears to deal more > multimedia while Acrobat deals more with document files. I am correct? > If I am I see it threating other parts of Adobe more than the Acrobat > part. > If I am wrong please explain and correct me. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
