I'm personally not a huge fan of either Flash or Silverlight technologies, but I feel a lot more comfortable with SL than Flash on my managed systems...
Adobe products, especially Flash and Acrobat/Reader, have become extraordinarily common attack vectors. I think that's attributable to both a poor or broken software security methodology and lack of a good centralized patch management system without bolting on another product. The SL maps really are quite impressive. Kinda steals some thunder out of Channel 9's video showing the Direct2D GPU-rendered IE9 navigating through Bing Maps. > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 2:50 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Bing Maps.. > > Could be greatest thing since sliced bread but that's not going to get > SilverLight on any of my boxes! Hell I'm still battling fraking M$ adding > their > other dren to Firefox without warning. > > On 4/30/2010 11:16 PM, CW wrote: > > Has anyone played with the new one? Holy cow.. > > > > http://bing.com/maps/explore/ > > > > (requires silverlight) but jeez.. outside of insanely fluid, the modes to > > show > different shots of locals from their db vs. flickr geotagged vs. time stamped > and relative.. outside of minute-by-minute starmaps visibile from location.. > > > > Pretty wild stuff. > >
