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Story: Microsoft Silverlight coming to Nokia mobiles

Posted by: harpless (Tuesday 4 March 2008, 7:46 PM)

Microsoft are intent on creating chaos in every market

I think i've asked this question before; why do Microsoft feel they have to have their own version/standard for everything? like OOXML to ODF, Silverlight is meant to be an alternative to Adobe Flash player.
What's wrong with flash player?

They don't like the idea that anybody else could have a ubiquituos tool, even when that tool is free, like flash player is.
So; they create their own version, lure some content producers to optimise for their version, thus creating chaos for us users, not long after that, Silverlight comes pre-installed on your Windows system, they create a few bugs for the rival, then were trapped with Silverlight. Or was that OOXML, maybe it was Internet Explorer!

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