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1. Comment - Adobe claims 100 million AIR installs...Where's Silverlight?

   (Feb 2, 2009 - 12:35 PM)

   @mossyblog,
   
   You talk alot of BS for someone with a supposed real job title in every post. You're only doing worse for Microsoft's already horrible PR. Your stats are made up (i'm going to go ahead and say 70% of them are made up..see how easy that is?) and you clearly dont know the different between AIR and Silverlight. Adobe AIR is flash for the desktop if you will. It is the ubiquitous technology known as flash but brough to windows, linux and mac. Silverlight is still browser only thus making it the same as flash, not AIR.
   
   Next, why should anyone really pick Silverlight over Flash/Flex, I dont care what you say, I have years of experience with Visual Studio but Adobe's Flex Builder is right up there with it...It has 90% of Studios functionality plus a few extra features that Studio doesnt have. Yea, .NET is my favourite server-side technology and probably the best but guess what, Flash/Flex RIA's can talk directly to your.NET backend with a beautiful little bridging technology known as WebORB so I'm not missing the power of Visual Studio.
   
   However you may say, why not just use Silverlight then. Well, Silverlight adoption is terrible. I laugh at your "1 in 4 PC's has Silverlight"..you lie. I've only come across 1 or 2 Microsoft sites (outta 5000) that uses it's own technology. Why would I leave flash for silverlight, when Microsoft cant even find developers to do their sites in thier own technologies. The whole thing is laughable. And then they want people to take them seriously...It's too little too late.
   
   God help you if Adobe ever improves on flashes web service capabilities.....Silverlight will have no chance in hell, and you will be out of a job

2. Comment - Steve Jobs: Blu-ray is a bag of hurt, no netbook planned

   (Oct 15, 2008 - 2:00 PM)

   Ya what rock do you live under? I went to bestbuy yesterday and now a whole isle that would previously be dvd/vhs is now all blu-ray. I go into blockbuster, they've started a blu-ray wall, thats almost as large as the entire new/used for purchase section. I went to Futureshop as well, every tv was hooked up to Blu-ray to display the quality of the picture. Amazon.com has blu-ray sales (like buy one get one, buy one get one 50%, etc) nearly bi-weekly. So I dont know what your talking about....

3. Comment - Steve Jobs: Blu-ray is a bag of hurt, no netbook planned

   (Oct 15, 2008 - 2:00 PM)

   I dont think hes bashing blu-ray in any way shape or form, hes just saying theres alot of headache with the licensing process. Period. Thats it. Oh please you Microsoft kids need to stop taking MS d*ck because you are all just bashing Blu-Ray because it beat out HD-DVD.
   
   You are all hypocrites. You were all for large optical media when HD-DVD was around, and then since they lost, now you, like M$, preach "oh its irrelevant, downloads are the future." Please, who has hard drive space for 1GB+ television shows and movies without using a large backup media (like blu-ray or external discs) to keep making space with.
   
   Even more important than that, look up "US Bandwidth crisis" and you tell me with a straight face, that downloads are ready to take over. It's simply not so and for the next 10 years or so when HD downloads are practical blu will be our mainstay.
   
   Lastly, look what people said about cassettes. Oh we dont need cassettes, we got 8 track, its not going anywhere. Then oh we dont need cd's, cassette tapes are good enough. Then it was, what do we need DVD's for? we got cd's and vhs! and now its why BluRay, we have dvd's. Well the answer is simple, like all the others, they make way for more capacity and higher quality. Simple as that, and if you cant wrap your head around that, you dont know anything about tech.