It costs a lot of money to trick people into trading their freedoms for security.

Oh I know what propaganda is thank you very much.

Nobody knows if the commenter was being truthful or emotional, so that just leaves sensational. Was something sensational said? My point is...you can't just say something is a bit of propaganda without knowing some more facts.

I thought he was saying that it was propaganda because he didn't think that a forensics lab would be running Windows on their Macs to begin with.

Maybe he meant what you said, but the comment didn't say "identical hardware" it said "identical specs".

It must be propaganda...because you said so?

I only run Bootcamp Windows on my Macbook Pro. I do have a Mac OS partition, but I only use it to update the firmware once in a while.

I tried running Windows in a VM, but honestly the Mac OS got in the way too often. It just doesn't let VMware/Parallels handle certain keystrokes and mouse actions first...

What is a true browser app really? If you go with the basic definition of the word "application", it simply means "the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose". In that sense, anything in your browser window _is_ a true application of web browser technology.

Anyway, the hodge podge known as HTML/CSS/JS is not an SDK and it was never meant to be. It is shoe-horned into this role and I really can't fathom why people hang onto it so fervently.

I'll take Silverlight and Flash any day over that mess. At least Silverlight was actually developed keeping it's role as an SDK in mind.

The idea that something like Project BlueBeam exists sounds more likely to me than actual aliens visiting us.

Should we expect a real attack at the same time?

If I'm being held hostage by Microsoft lock-in, you're being held hostage by the cancerous GPL lock-in.

Who doesn't buy from Microsoft? Last I checked, almost _everybody_ buys from Microsoft and that's not likely to change anytime soon.

It figures that you care about fashion. OSuX users usually do.

Actually, what would really kill Microsoft is if Adobe decided to integrate C# into Flash.

Remember how upset Microsoft got when some small company demonstrated a program that compiled C# winforms projects into a Flash program? The *immediately* bought that company and killed the technology.

Actually yes. Moonlight at version 2.0 also implements the Silverlight 3.0 API.

Care to try again?

Amen brother.

Have you ever tried Visual Studio? Seriously, if you give Silverlight dev in Visual Studio an honest try, you'll be spoiled and won't want to go back.

The programming language alone is worth the switch. It's soooo much more capable than Actionscript and the runtime lets you do advanced things like threading. You can also use the same language to build your own web services.