The Wong Library, it houses the largest collection of literature in the universe.
http://theinfosphere.org/File:MarsUniversityWongLibraryLitCollection.png

Not to belittle the editorial staff, but gmail was back up and running before the story was posted publically

Some friendly competition from the bogeymen:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470460 [Doom/Hexen in Flash]
http://www.innoveware.com/ql3/QuakeLight.html [Quake in Silverlight]

Processing is a Java library, parts of which has been ported to javascript.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_(programming_language)

Major League Baseball Advanced Media totally botched the transition not once, but twice. When switching from Flash to Silverlight last year their new Silverlight-based streaming player didn't work, leaving paying customers without service for days. This year they decided to switched back to a Flash-based player ON OPENING DAY. Unfortunately, the new player doesn't work either, and in many ways was worse than the silverlight player, requiring additional installation plugins for HD capabilities, and left these same paying customers without the opening day experience they're paying for two years in a row.

Also I'm sure politics played a role too.

MLB 2008
http://www.pcworld.com/article/144035/mlbs_web_video_strikes_out_on_opening_day.html

MLB 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/major-league-baseball-str_b_185158.html

.. the next logical step? Can't wait to see the day where global warming is not only caused by cars but by exhaling our fat asses.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media totally botched the transition not once, but twice. When switching from Flash to Silverlight last year their new Silverlight-based streaming player didn't work, leaving paying customers without service for days. This year they decided to switched back to a Flash-based player ON OPENING DAY. Unfortunately, the new player doesn't work either, and in many ways was worse than the silverlight player, requiring additional installation plugins for HD capabilities, and left these same paying customers without the opening day experience they're paying for two years in a row.

New York Times Reader was a different case. It worked fairly well, but NYT got thoroughly flamed for introducing the reader for windows only, basing it on WPF's FlowDocument capabilities which aren't available for the Mac. Similar text features are eventually going to make it into Silverlight, but things like Printing are a much higher priority for the SL guys. The silverlight version of the reader used a complicated templating system rather than true adaptive text layout. Adobe's Text Layout Framework may not have been the first to market, but that + Flex + AIR are the first to bring it to a wider audience and may ultimately resonate more.

Also I'm sure politics played a prevalent role in both cases, especially in the case of NYT where the Mac User's vitriol for anything microsoft played out.

MLB 2008
http://www.pcworld.com/article/144035/mlbs_web_video_strikes_out_on_opening_day.html

MLB 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/major-league-baseball-str_b_185158.html

NYT:
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1424-new-york-times-switches-from-wpfsilverlight-to-flash-for-reader-2.html

Yet another rule for the higher-ed equivalent of the rat maze. If they already have understanding, will students still be forbidden from using the tool to make life easier?

I wrote for the TI-82 that would show various equation solutions as well as their stages of reduction. Not surprisingly I had alot more fun writing the program than copying the complete answers of ~60 problems to paper.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
      -Buddha

Twitter?

You'll be eating your words when Moonlight supports SL2 content & codecs. But by then I'm sure all the linux users will move away from the "it's not available" argument to the "it's binary only" argument (for codecs). Silverlight usage is only going to increase.

People don't hand out job offers, on or off LinkedIn. What may happen is recruiters may attempt to contact you if your profile is desirable.

I've had dozens of recruiters mail me through linked in over the last couple years, atleast one every couple of weeks. But that is missing the point. I'm less interested in making the recruiter's job easier and more interested in watching where my colleagues and former colleagues find new employment. *This* is the tool that is most interesting about linked in, traversing the connection tree of people you've work with from now to 10 years ago. And the person with the right mindset could use it to their advantage when looking for a new job.

"Nobody does it like molten boron"

http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/7/78/Molten_Boron.jpg/200px-Molten_Boron.jpg

So by this definition, Adobe also produces malware because the Acrobat Reader installer silently installs plugins for firefox and IE. I disagree, I don't think it's malware, it's tiny helper that improves the over all usability of the app. Same goes for the .NET FF extension.

I think majority of the people here, with a handful of exceptions, are bent out of shape just because it's Microsoft. The rest are discriminating firefox users that don't know what clickonce is.

ActiveX has a horrible security model, so much so that versions of IE newer than 6 will warn you before using them.

ClickOnce apps are sandboxed. They are also announced plainly to the user. It cannot be installed without the users knowledge (coincidentally enough).

You definitely get credit for bashing someone other than microsoft, but the situation is different. It's akin to being pissed at Apple for installing a quicktime-enabling plugin in firefox when you've installed quicktime.

You've installed .NET, so you might actually want to run a .NET application, deployed as an XBAP (embedded in the browser, sandboxed, facilitated by a seperate plugin by the way), as a clickonce app, or as a traditionally installed application. The extension enables the clickonce scenario for a non-microsoft browser. It's not a whole other application, and as I mentioned in another comment, it's not gonna log your bittorrent usage or shoot your baby.