MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com

Marilyn M. writes "It looks like Microsoft is getting desperate about the dismal rates of Silverlight adoption by consumers and developers since its release earlier this year. According to NeoSmart Technologies, Microsoft is preparing a fully Silverlight-powered redesign of their website, doing away with most HTML pages entirely. With over 60 million unique users visiting Microsoft.com a month, Microsoft's last-ditch effort might be what it takes to breathe some life back into Silverlight. The article notes: 'At the moment, very few non-Microsoft-owned sites are using Silverlight at all; let alone for the entire UI.'"

Firefox...

[binaryspiral]

If it doesn't work in Firefox, I'm not interested.

Oh wait... it does. Just kidding - still not interested.

Earlier this year?

[deckardt]

MS is giving up after 3 days? wow!

WARNING: Incredibly Morose Statement Following

[mdm-adph]

So... let's be realistic, how long before everyone's using this instead of Flash? My dib's on three years.

Re:Let's make MS Help EVEN Worse

[ShatteredArm]

You should have seen how badly the member website for Microsoft Certified Professionals crapped out when I tried getting in. The error message actually displayed a Guid.

And yes, I'm completely aware of the irony.

Re:WTF is Silverlight?

[east coast]

Yeah, they should use a sensible name with a product description like iPod, Gnome and Dreamweaver.

Oh, wait...

Geesh

[soulflakes]

Maybe you should all focus on NOT bashing MS in 2008. It's pretty boring. Gee, a company trying to force everyone to use their product..how evil!!! Grow up asshats.

Re:Firefox...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, but I'd rather not have to catch Mono from De Icaza in order to install something.

Re:Breeze to Program

[somersault]

Ah - so the rumours about it having poor floating point compatibility were true?

Re:Firefox...

[Stamen]

I gave Microsoft a chance in 1995, then I gave them a chance in 98, 99, and 2001, and 2003. I gave them a chance with Webclasses, with ActiveX, with Fox Pro, with Visual J, with DNA, with vbscript, with jscript, with J#, with VB. I gave them a chance with IE, then again with IE, then again.

I'm sure if I just give them this one more chance, they'll be fine, just this last chance, this is going to be the one that works out... I know it, I just know it.

Just in case there was any doubt...

[Foerstner]

...that .Net was a clone of Java.

Re:Wow

[Froboz23]

For those who don't know, pleonasm is the redundant use of cute robotic dinosaurs.

Re:WARNING: Incredibly Morose Statement Following

[jmyers]

if youporn switches to it I would say about 3 hours.

Re:Breeze to Program

[nschubach]

So what your saying is using .NET is like being caught in a net and using Mono is like having "Mono [wikipedia.org]"?