Comments on: A Flash G Talks about Silverlight

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:46:54 +0000

I have just downloaded the video in wmv, can’t be bother to install silverlight.

I have met a guy who is director of his company doing .net widgets, he told me that Microsoft has paid and asked them to do some stuff in sliverlight although he likes flash more. He is also interested in Adobe Air, maybe will do Air widgets soon too.

I guess it is one way of promoting their product, get paid by using their products:)

By: erikbianchi

erikbianchi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:11:53 +0000

bah, i’m not downloading yet another plugin just to watch a video that i could have watched if it was an flv, qt or wmv.

I had silverlight when it first came out, hit all kinds of issues and decided i didn’t need yet another plug in crashing my browser. (why i use firefox now too).

I think silverlight has potential, but some of my large big name clients have considered it, where even whood by MS and still decided against it because of either development, technical or distribution constraints.

I might consider it again in a few years, but Flash 9 / AS3 is so fast and reliable I’m personally not given enough compelling reasons to switch.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:15:50 +0000

Would be great if you could post it here as an FLV… no (Silverlight) install permissions on my work machine

By: Stefan Richter

Stefan Richter — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:34:24 +0000

Good interview, however the audio went baaaadly out of sync after about 2 mins - I had to look away and then it was ok That’s on Leopard.