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What's the problem really? I just installed Silverlight instead on whining about it.

• g0atbutt 17y ago
  Because I actually care about what stuff companies try to install on my computer.
  • nickpp 17y ago
    And you have FLASH installed? But seriously, me too. And I know EXACTLY what Silverlight is and I am OK to have it installed on my computer. Lightweight, fast, not very useful but... in this case it has an use: me watching the damn Olympic vids.
    • gvb 17y ago
      Yes, I have flash installed, but very grudgingly and only because I also have flashblock installed on firefox and chrome. It pisses me off every time I need to unblock it and it really pisses me off after I unblock it and find it was an unnecessary waste of time to watch the "flashy" animation that added no value to the web page. (/me gets off soapbox, wipes the spittle off face)
  • dschobel 17y ago
    From the post: The moral of this story is never make your users jump through hoops to view your content, try your product, or use your services. I can understand having moral objections to yet another proprietary web technology but I think your argument falls apart when you feign indignation about having to push "install plugin" and wait 4 seconds. As far as technical hoops go, that's pretty lame.
• gamble 17y ago
  Flash is bad enough. The last thing I need is another Flash, owned by Microsoft, and only used because Microsoft is paying everyone to push it on me.