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September 6, 2008 from ReadWriteWeb - Comment - Like - Share

Michael, Erhan Erdogan, Chuck Fishman and 10 other people liked this

Hehehe. Sweet Vendetta! Expect a comment from John Dowdell in T minus 10... 9... 8... 7.... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

But Flash choked on the NFL Opener. Now what are they gonna do, go back to Silverlight. Sheesh. - Oldengrey (Jay)

The Silverlight install was huge beyond belief. Control Panel said it was taking up 4GB of space. - James Williams

James: Which control panel? - Oldengrey (Jay)

yeah and did u see how horrible flash went for them? streaming nfl quality was terrible. - adolfo foronda

Uh, Silverlight is not a 4GB install. - Jordan Hofker

thinking james must have gotten the "trojan.win32.longjohn.silverlight" download from driveby.installwarez.cn ;-) - Karim

Yeah good riddance! Silverlight was a bother to install and then the video was a scaling nightmare...I don't mind flash choking a little, it will fix itself. It did do the job though: MSFT knows what they have to fix and NBC has leverage for the next silverlight video exclusive negotiations... - Anthony Farrior from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I used to work for macr and now a client is requiring me to use Silverlight. I see the pros and cons of both, but it is a little like groundhog day. - Oldengrey (Jay)