A fairly well written post, i'm in full agreement. While Microsoft may have some great technology in their portfolio, I simply don't want to use much of it bec

A fairly well written post, i'm in full agreement. While Microsoft may have some great technology in their portfolio, I simply don't want to use much of it because of how little I can trust them. In Google's case, they're not really asking me to trust them so much, by documenting and open sourcing many of the technologies they're trying to push, I can at least feel like I have some degree of protection. If there was a 'Google Silverlight' (as hypothesised in the article) it would probably be under consideration as a platform for the next version of my product but Microsoft's Silverlight falls very much short.