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Microsoft using Flash in place of Silverlight

While searching net I come to know about Microsoft Mojave, the Mojave Experiment. Surprisingly Microsoft is using Flash in place of Silverlight for the presentations.
 
Seems even Microsoft knows who is the leader

Wrox Press Announces Silverlight 1.0 Book

Microsoft just released Silverlight in September, a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering media experiences and interactive applications for the Web. A direct competitor to Adobe’s market dominant Flash application, Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, Visual C#, Visual Basic, and other languages. Developers are lining up to get started with Silverlight [...]

Microsoft Releases Silverlight 1.0

Microsoft has released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering a richer user experiences on the Web.

“Silverlight is a popular new way to build and deliver cross-browser, cross-platform experiences on the Web,” said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of Developer Platforms and leader of the Mono project at Novell. “Novell [...]

Top 10 Reasons : Why Flex wins over Silverlight :)

Ted Says:
1. Flex is available today and works.
2. Flex 2 is viewable in 85+% of web browsers, Flex 2 SWF files run in Flash Player 9.
3. You can use any HTTP Server and any backend technology (.NET,JAVA,PHP,Ruby,CF, Python) with Flex via XML, SOAP, Sockets, ZLIB, Etc.

Competition always benefit the end-user

Straight from Arpit’s Blog,  I agree with the idea of thinking about the usability and creativity despite of caring about any Technology. Although my thoughts always get inclined towards OpenSource options but still if a tech can deliver better than any available than we surely go for it. I repeat that our motto should be [...]