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.

I wonder what's really going on in Iran. Because this wreaks of propaganda.

But, you open source folks always tout the effectiveness of open source methodologies.

Microsoft is doing the right thing here and I hope other companies follow: Instead of building products "for Linux", give them what they need to build their own. I personally wouldn't expend one ounce of energy building a piece of desktop software for Linux users.

They don't pay for anything, so let them build their own.

Most people don't care to have a clue as far as computers go. To most people, computers are just a means to an end.

They always release their software for Windows first. Will this be the same? I wonder...

"Does he deserve to get sued over what he did?"

You sound like a child. There is no "deserving" when getting sued. People sue other people. Fortuny did something that this guy didn't like and the guy is doing something back.

Anyway, you're a fucking child. Grow up child.

iPods and game consoles are consumer only products. They're a completely different playing field than cellphones.

Vista is running on more personal computers than OSuX and Linux combined. Failure? Not in relative terms.

But they're not locked into Microsoft hardware. That's an important distinction. You are never _truly_ locked into a software product.

At this stage of the game, almost every piece of Microsoft software is replaceable. Exchange is the last piece.