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Do you have a Flash player installed? If so, what's the difference between Adobe's browser-disruption technology and Microsoft's? I'd agree that content requir
by gaustin 17y ago
Do you have a Flash player installed? If so, what's the difference between Adobe's browser-disruption technology and Microsoft's?
I'd agree that content requiring either is almost universally annoying, but at some point you have to compromise if you want to investigate something that may be worthwhile/interesting/worth ridiculing.
- simonw 17y agoIt's not just Silverlight - I installed that, then tried to access the demo URLs and was told I needed to install Pivot as well. Which isn't available for the Mac. http://content.getpivot.com/Collections/dogbreeds/dogbreeds.cxml http://content.getpivot.com/Collections/dogbreeds/dogbreeds....
- pavs 17y agoWhy would expect it to be available for the ma?. The headline clearly said its from Microsoft.
- allenbrunson 17y agoare you aware that word, excel, powerpoint, and yes, even silverlight are all available for the mac?
- windsurfer 17y agoAlthough you are right, they are, they almost certainly weren't when they first came out.
- tremendo 17y agoExcel, the first GUI-based Word and Powerpoint were out for the Mac first in mid-to-late 1980's. Windows wasn't ready for them. Multiplan and the original Word were DOS apps. I know it's irrelevant to this Post, just a historical note. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word
- windsurfer 17y agoOh wow, thanks. I had no idea.
- allenbrunson 17y agoyep. it's hard to believe now, but microsoft was one of the early champions of the mac. i don't know if it's still true, but at one time, microsoft's macbu employed more mac programmers than apple itself.
- dchest 17y agoI had it, but you reminded me to uninstall it (thanks!). I only used it rarely (Google Analytics charts and non-YouTube flash videos), and most of the time it was blocked by ClickToFlash. There's no difference except that Mac OS X already comes with Flash.