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Well, Smooth Streaming (using Silverlight) is Microsofts "new" streaming platform. It's like asking Adobe to not have Flash on their website.

• pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  Nope, it's like asking Adobe to support Linux with a flash client, oh wait Adobe do that and it's even updated quite often ... you can hardly accuse Adobe of being a one OS only operation. Get back to us when MS have a Silverlight plugin in the Ubuntu repos and allow their browser to be used on other people's OS.
  • jrydberg 15y ago
    I'm quite sure Microsoft really doesn't care about Linux. It cares about Smooth Streaming though.
  • balac 15y ago
    > oh wait Adobe do that and it's even updated quite often Your memory must be pretty short, its only recently that Adobe have released new flash version to Linux at the same time as OSX & Windows, and even more recently that they released a 64bit version. Companies can change.
    • pbhjpbhj 15y ago
      No, my memory, whilst pretty lame, is good enough to go back those few months. Adobe aren't all the way there yet, pretty close. But Microsoft haven't even started that journey. I'll be surprised if they follow the lead that Adobe set for them but it's still possible. Indeed Silverlight may well be part of the reason that Adobe finally pulled their finger out and got serious about their flash plugin on Linux. Companies can change for the better, first they have to want to though and there's no sign of that with MS yet AFAICT.