http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/2314220/New-Microsoft-Silverlight-Features-Have-Windows-Bias
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Microsoft today announced the release of version 4.0 of its
world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a
replacement for Adobe’s Flash, it is widely considered utterly
superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found [today.com].
“We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight,”
announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. “NBC for
the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The
Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users
are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich
controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media
support, oh God kill me now. My options are underwater, my resumé’s a
car crash, Google won’t call me back. My life is an exercise in
futility. I’m the walking dead, man. The walking dead.”
Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on
Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash
is present on a pathetic 96% of all computers connected to the Internet,
whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.
“But it’s got DRM!” cried Guthrie. “Netflix loved it! And web developers
love us too, after all we did for them with IE 6. Wait, come back! We’ll
put porn on it! Free porn!”
Similar Microsoft initiatives include its XPS replacement for Adobe PDF,
its HD Photo replacement for JPEG photographs and its earlier Liquid
Motion attempt to replace Flash. Also, that CD-ROM format Vista defaults
to which no other computers can read.
In a Microsoft internal security sweep, Guthrie’s own desktop was found
to still be running Windows XP.
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