What are, for me as a user, and for "rich media content" developers, the advantages of Silverlight over Flash?
Programming languages (just stick to interpreted, 'web' languages for this example), all do practically the same thing, but they all exist for a simple reason like a developers preference. Is this the same with media content such as silverlight and flash, or is it simply Microsoft trying to become the top dog for online media?
I'm all in for competitors, maybe Silverlight wont suck most of my Macs CPU up when playing online video, and Adobe might work harder to make things more efficient and better for developers, but if this is just MS trying to take over my browser as they loose IE market share, I will be disappointed.
Programming languages (just stick to interpreted, 'web' languages for this example), all do practically the same thing, but they all exist for a simple reason like a developers preference. Is this the same with media content such as silverlight and flash, or is it simply Microsoft trying to become the top dog for online media?
I'm all in for competitors, maybe Silverlight wont suck most of my Macs CPU up when playing online video, and Adobe might work harder to make things more efficient and better for developers, but if this is just MS trying to take over my browser as they loose IE market share, I will be disappointed.