Posted on 03/25/2010 11:51:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Microsoft’s Silverlight client may have finally reached critical mass, with installation on more than 60 percent of all Internet devices, according to one Microsoft exec. Brad Becker, director of product management for rich client platforms at Microsoft, told us in a phone interview that the rich Internet application plugin has seen strong momentum recently, with the percentage of Internet devices the Silverlight client has been installed on increasing by a third — to 60 percent from 45 percent — in just the last four months.
The news that Silverlight has finally surpassed the 50 percent-mark comes on the heels of Microsoft’s touting of new features added to the framework at its MIX10 developer’s conference last week. With the release of Silverlight 4, Microsoft is taking a big step toward extending the Silverlight client beyond the desktop and onto mobile devices, where it will be the de facto application platform for Windows Phone 7 smartphones. Add to that out-of-browser support on the desktop, and Microsoft has made it easy for businesses to develop apps that can transfer data from the PC to mobile devices without having to build out multiple applications.
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Some of these devices will start migrating towards HTML 5. HOwever in my opinion silverlight is pretty good and I have never had an issue with it, unlike Flash.
Another Microsoft piece of cr**?
I needeth it not.
My household has been Microsoft free for years now, and we’ve rebuilt nothing, crashed nothing...just computing competency - something unattainable by the Yugo of operating systems.
ping...........
Aye. Flash has been horrible in the past couple years. I think their success went to their head.
Silverlight is actually pretty decent. It will allow professional developers to stop having to mess with the unfinished college project known at HTML.
It works quite well and scales excellent.
As I understand it, there is already an Open Source version available called Moonlight, which was developed with MS's blessing.
The tech isn't evil, even if you believe the company is.
Flash truly is garbage. Still no 64bit flash for Windows.. After Vista and now 7 64bit are fairly common and will just get moreso as 32bit fades away. It’s been ‘coming’ for 3 years.
Also, the performance is dog slow in general. Silverlight is a far FAR better product. It’s too bad Flash got so embedded, I hope that will change. I’m not a big Microsoft fan, but if Flash would die off things would be much, much better.
He says he needeth it not, which in layman’s terms means he refuses to even listen to anything and would prefer just to insult if need be.
I guess the Reverend wouldn't listen, either.
Fanatics! What can you do?
We're not Microsoft-free yet (even my cellphone) though for a couple of cases where I suspect flaky electronics Windows hasn't been bad. Just slow.
Linux has become pretty good, though Xubuntu 9.10 was massively unstable on my system. (Xubuntu 9.04 works extremely well.)
What issues have you had with Flash? Working on a graphing component which utilizes right now.
Mostly flash based ad’s. I have often had a website completely stop responding when I go to them or slow to a snails pace. Often whenever Firefox memory leaks(hey Mozilla that issue still exists!)one single flash ad will bring the whole browser to a halt.
They are all competitors to each other java vs flash vs silverlight.
Silverlight is pretty smooth. Makes web app run better, and it’s not as twitchy as Flash. You might have Silverlight and not even know it, it runs on most browsers. I haven’t had to rebuild anything as a result of OS problems this century, harddrive crashes would be it, just computing competency, something quite attainable under Windows.
I have it but I generally leave it going since so many sites I go to use flash and some of those sites generally become worthless with out flash.
The last three times I have seen a BSOD was because a video driver crashed and those video drivers crashed because the actual graphics cards were fried. I simply replaced the graphics card with the exact same model(or nearest to it) and fixed them, not even a reinstall or anything was necessary.
Clearly, the free market has spoken and prefers MS to others. Overwhelmingly.
Isn’t this what one uses for Netflix streaming? If so, no trouble with it here either ... yet. :-)
I’ve used only Microsoft product for years now and we’ve rebuilt nothing, crashed nothing...it just takes computing competency. Silverlight has taken off because it is superior.
Java is the most oversold and lied about programming language ever when it comes to web applications. It was a better choice than C++ but not by much. It is clunky, a resource hog and makes it too easy for incompetent programmers to produce crap code and and crap web applications. There are plenty of incompetent Java programmers out there.
If you are using Java to create web pages or services switch to ASP.Net; a much better framework.
Indeed, and it works GREAT. I hope Adobe can keep up because I love producing in Flash.
Let me break it down (as a Silverlight developer).
- Java competes against .NET which is what Silverlight runs on but SL is a subset of .NET
- Because SL can reach into most of .NET, it is far, far more powerful than Flash. Flash is a 1 trick pony but SL rests on the .NET platform and can use most of it (security on browsers prevents some things).
- Using SL’s mark-up language, XAML, you can build a single application that runs on a browser and as a Windows app. You can even drag a SL app out of the browser if the developer allows it.
- SL runs 200x faster than JavaScript
- The developer tools that work with .NET (Visual Studios) work with SL. That is a HUGE advantage.
Basically, it is far superior to other technologies out there because they started with .NET as the basis. That makes it easier for .NET developers to dive in and be productive. SL also runs on almost all browsers and most O/Ss.
Yeah, the days of Windows eating itself are pretty much passed. In theory there’s still the possibility of a poorly time crash that corrupts on of the key files, but it’s not like the old 3.1 days of counting your crashes and once the number got past 2 dozen it was time to re-install Windows because you knew there were corrupt files. These days if you’re getting corrupted files it’s because the computer gods went out of their way to hose you, and there’s no OS safe from the whims of the gods.
hat’s what Jobs said about Adobe..they got lazy.
And now SharePoint is becoming the weapon of choice for developing robust web applications.
We use Adobe Flex on our projects, and it is real frustrating to have to write ActionScript for the front-end and Java for the back-end. That is what is nice about Silverlight, is that you code everything in one-language.
C# is the best language I have ever used and i started 30 years ago and have gone through dozens.
SL is free.
I am not up to speed on your industry but a casual search shows:
http://www.modulusfe.com/stockchartsl/
http://www.modulusfe.com/m4/silverlight.asp
Nothing ticks me off more than to go into a legacy .NET app and find out it was coded in VB.NET.
I absolutely LOATHE VB anything. I had to code it for SSIS work a few years back but I will turn down a .NET consulting project if it involves VB.NET.
The joy of independence.
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