Simply Shankar

Spent some time today downloading and trying out Microsoft’s Silverlight.

While the download and install was very impressive (2 MB), it seems like this thing has a very long way to go.

I was expecting to see more developer focused demos – could not find anything. Just a lot of chartware and some videos. Maybe a sign that Microsoft is trying to be a Media company more than a software company … The videos were of pretty poor quality and I had major issues with getting anything to even play without lots of long pauses. Looking at the list of tools required – seems pretty daunting. Almost everything has a fee associated with it.

I think I like Adobe’s Apollo platform much better at this point. The experience is much slicker, the development story is very clean and the desktop integration is powerful.

Ok, I dug around a bit more and I think I just found the developer site for Silverlight – there was an obscure little link from the main site. What is interesting is that this site renders broken in Firefox – oops!

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