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Re:Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right by loewenskind on Friday August 20, 2010 @04:23AM (#1619845)
IMO the fact that Silverlight hasn't been canned is just another point that shows that MS doesn't get it. When they saw where HTML5 was going they should have jumped on board with both feet. It's too late to force everyone to use their OS at this point so they should have been focused on being compatible with everyone but simply running better.

Silverlight will get a bit bigger but it's never going to matter in the long term, any more than Java applets ever will.

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Re:Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right by nanairo on Friday August 20, 2010 @06:08AM (#1619990)
The cynic in me thinks that MS thought that rather than spending energy to "get it" and maybe failing, they could back all horses and see who would win. They usual strategy (and Google's current m.o. sadly).
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