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Exactly. Other than Netflix, what well-known applications did Silverlight back? None come to mind for me.
by geetarista 14y ago
Exactly. Other than Netflix, what well-known applications did Silverlight back? None come to mind for me.
- vyrotek 14y agoThere are a lot of private enterprise applications built on it. Its strength was that you could build complex tools relatively quickly. For example, I know of a local company that builds law enforcement software on it. I believe Netflix only uses a small portion of the 'Smooth Streaming' technology in Silverlight.
- kstrauser 14y agoIt ran (past tense) MLB.com's streaming games, but they abandoned it in favor of Flash.
- munger 14y agoAs I recall, recent X Games and Olympics had all their online video content accessible only through Silverlight players also. I remember trying to watch some of these events and being annoyed because the Silverlight player was locking up Firefox.
- yonran 14y agoAlso the Feynman lectures on physics. It’s a shame that they went through the effort to put it online only to release it in an inaccessible format. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.HTML http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.HTML
- Too 14y agoPlayboy