Comments on: Silverlight Losing Another Major Customer

By: Jeremy Likness

Jeremy Likness — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:02:57 +0000

At least investigate the facts before reporting dire doomsday scenarios.

The “Though the problem has been known since 2006, Microsoft has done little to fix it” is completely off. In fact, the author was kind enough to link to the forum this was ripped from, but managed to quote something from 2008. We’re almost in 2010.

It turns out Microsoft rewrote the entire text rendering stack to accomodate this issue and it should be addressed in the next release of both WPF and Silverlight.

The author also forgot to mention the wins of Sunday Night Football and the upcoming Olympics.

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Sun, 31 May 2009 20:10:51 +0000

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By: TitusM

TitusM — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:25:51 +0000

The developers that NYT used indeed did a very nice job. It indeed gives the closest experience to browsing a newspaper that there is.

However, this is not going to save the NYT. And the reason is that if you go to Google News and search on the term “Bilderberg” in order to bring up news items on the globalist Bilderberg Group’s meeting of 2009 being held in Vouliagmeni, Greece, none of the links are from the NYT.

In other words, the NYT has no credibility as a news organization, but instead self-censors itself on behalf of the Bilderberg agenda.

The fact that the NYT, and other large corporate media organs, are stooges for these self-anointed globalist is the reason the news reading public doesn’t give a shit about them anymore.

The NYT only reports the news that the Bilderberg globalist approve to be filtered down to the masses.

http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=bilderberg

By: turtlewax

turtlewax — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:10:32 +0000

Is the silverlight install-base so small that a single defection is newsworthy? Websites switch stacks all the time, trading one bag of problems for another, then often going back again. Also, its not uncommon for websites to use multiple technologies, leveraging the strengths of each.

As for adobe, I’d like them better if they’d stop “improving” their software. it generally seems like flash and acrobat degrade with each new release (especially acrobat).

By: Chad Campbell

Chad Campbell — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:20:35 +0000

Please correct me if I am wrong, however, I do not see anything that says the NYT is “dropping” Silverlight. Instead, I this very well may be Adobe writing some software for the NYT to showcase their technology. This type of thing happens all of the time with technology platforms.

In regards to the MLB deal, I personally believe that was MLB looking for to place the blame somewhere. The fact of the matter is, one of their “reasons” was users had difficulties logging in. As the author of Silverlight 2 in Action, I can say with confidence that Silverlight has little to do with authentication/authorization, it’s a client side technology. In addition, it should be noted that many of the same problems arose when the MLB switched back to Flash.

One of the other problems that the MLB stated was poor video quality. That is BS. If that was true, why did NBC just when an Emmy for the 2008 Olympics website (which used Silverlight for online video)?

Once again. I believe this is just a “showcase” type project. In addition, I feel that the MLB is looking for someone to blame. Ultimately the users will decide which apps they want to use. Personally, I will develop and deliver my apps with Silverlight.

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:04:34 +0000

“In the service industry, a monopoly may work….in the IT world there is no such thing.”

Clearly the US Department of Justice and the European Union felt differently.

By: Ryan Rife

Ryan Rife — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:41:09 +0000

“Microsoft is that it can no longer rely on its monopoly for customers” that comment and the whole last paragraph was dumb and added little to no value to the article. If you have a monopoly and are effectively leveraging it, then there is no reason to continue to innovate & evolve your products and compete with potential customers. This is not something Microsoft is doing and clearly Microsoft has not taken advantage of their monopoly nor are they leveraging it against their customers to force them to use their products. In the service industry, a monopoly may work….in the IT world there is no such thing.

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By: Chila

Chila — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:15:00 +0000

(correction)
Microsoft (minus)(minus);

By: Chila

Chila — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:12:45 +0000

Microsoft–;