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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by zapdrive on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:18AM (#4640204)
The only thing keeping silverlight alive is Netflix. I wonder why they use it in first place.
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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by ttrashh on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:33AM (#4640242)
DRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework
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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by 46Bit on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:42AM (#4640262)
I have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.
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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by adrr on Thursday October 11, 2012 @10:54AM (#4641012)
Silverlight can enforce protected streams to the output devices. I couldn't play netflix streaming movies on my old monitor since it didn't support HDCP.
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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by aidos on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:21AM (#4640208)
They use it for the DRM. In their case it's a necessary evil.
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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by rythie on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:51AM (#4640283)
Some sort of deal with Microsoft I would assume.
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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by fakeer on Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:33AM (#4640351)
.NET.

Almost everybody uses some version of Windows or other and so .NET is there more or less.

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