Although Microsoft battles it out with Apple and Sony, the real war is with Adobe. Since Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia and essentially all things Flash, they have become the new king of web. The future is all about immediate content delivery and who can do it best. Right now almost every video delivered on the web uses the Flash plug-in. Microsoft has been completely left out of that equation but they’re not going down without a fight. The silver lining to their dilemma is a plug-in called Silverlight.
Silverlight works just like Flash in that media files and interactive applications can be delivered and played on both Macs and PCs, on any browser. Where Silverlight really shines is HD. Unlike Flash, Silverlight supports full streaming 720p video and offers seamless transitions between fullscreen and windowed mode without losing your position in the video or restarting the stream. The plug-in is also scalable to work in mobile devices and other embedded applications.
Silverlight promises to be and do everything Flash can’t. My only question is, where’s Apple in all this? Hit the jump for the hot demo of Silverlight.
3 Responses to “Silverlight vs. Flash, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!”
“Yeah this will be very nice, that is if we can get decent support for it Firefox etc and not just IE.”
You’d be happy to know it has full support in IE, Firefox and Safari.
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April 17th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Yay! Easily accessible WMV on Linux!
April 17th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Yeah this will be very nice, that is if we can get decent support for it Firefox etc and not just IE.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
“Yeah this will be very nice, that is if we can get decent support for it Firefox etc and not just IE.”
You’d be happy to know it has full support in IE, Firefox and Safari.