Comments on: CES 2008 Gates keynote http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080106/ces-2008-gates-keynote/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: george http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080106/ces-2008-gates-keynote/comment-page-1/#comment-327648 george Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:34:13 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080106/ces-2008-gates-keynote/#comment-327648 "Silverlight is very cool technology. It could be written off as "Microsoft Flash" but it’s actually much more than that." Come again? No its a beta project actually, much, much, less than flash (with a 10 year history). The last time I looked Silverlight has about 5% of the feature set that Flash has. Thier claim to fame whas support for the h.264 video codec, witch also came out with latest version of flash player. As you pointed out, noone but .Net developer care about Silverfish and XAML. “Silverlight is very cool technology. It could be written off as “Microsoft Flash” but it’s actually much more than that.”

Come again? No its a beta project actually, much, much, less than flash (with a 10 year history). The last time I looked Silverlight has about 5% of the feature set that Flash has. Thier claim to fame whas support for the h.264 video codec, witch also came out with latest version of flash player.

As you pointed out, noone but .Net developer care about Silverfish and XAML.

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