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I believe they have to as a good show of faith or else risk hypocrisy for not touching their own dog food.
by angstrom 19y ago
I believe they have to as a good show of faith or else risk hypocrisy for not touching their own dog food.
- gruseom 19y agoMS hardly have to redesign their whole website away from HTML, nor is their history one of great effort to eschew hypocrisy. Besides, the dog food story is easy: have a token project or two so people can't say you don't use your own stuff. That's what MS did with SourceSafe and arguably .NET as well. This seems to me a gutsier move. Flash's greatest strength (and Silverlight's greatest weakness) is its installed base. MS have a big asset in the 8th most visited website; to put it in the service of deploying Silverlight is pretty daring and reminiscent of the MS of old... not necessarily a good thing! But I'm just speculating and could be wrong.