microsoft silverlight vs macromedia flash

[Serious]

Microsoft announced pre-release of it's silverlight technology intended for interactive web pages including embedded video and dynamic menus.

More info at: http://silverlight.net/

Will it kill macromedia flash? How do you think?

[toker]

Not in a million years it wont kill flash even if they do manage to gain a good chunk of the market. Companies have to much money invested in flash development just to go with something new.

Microsoft made IIS it never killed Apache. They made their own MsSQL it never killed Oracle. They made XP and it never killed Mac. They even made IE7 with tabbed browsing and Firefox lives on.

Btw Macromedia is no more its now Adobe Flash.

[basschick]

it's pretty late to start something to go head to head with flash. imo it's a waste of their time and money.

[toker]

it's pretty late to start something to go head to head with flash. imo it's a waste of their time and money.

In the end they will write it off so it really wont cost them anything. MS can toss a billion dollars in the toilet and write it off. Even if it bleeds them a little they still get more brand awareness. There is no real innovation coming from Microsoft if you look back at the history of their products.

Windows = VisiOn
NT = Linux
Notepad = Vim (prefer Pico myself)
Outlook = Lotus (not sure when Endura came along)
Internet Explorer = Nexus
MS Money = Quicken
MSN = AOL/Yahoo/Google
X-Box - Nentendo/PlayStation
MSN TV = WebTV
MS Music = iTunes

Almost forgot MS Paint very much like Gimp

In fact you wont find anything they have developed to be truly innovative.

[basschick]

suppose they're going to build silverlight into ie?

[Tanker]

suppose they're going to build silverlight into ie?

they will gain a little market share but flash will dominate

[basschick]

my thought wasn't market share - it was that this will be something else buggy that can annoy us in ie ;)

they will gain a little market share but flash will dominate