http://lifeisgrand.disqus.com/enThu, 03 May 2007 14:48:46 -0000http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/05/03/first-thoughts-on-silverlight/#comment-1282335My shock isn't so much with MS hyping Silverlight but all the usually smart devs out there lapping it up.Paul WatsonThu, 03 May 2007 14:48:46 -0000http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/05/03/first-thoughts-on-silverlight/#comment-1282334Ah... geez. ActiveX is dead, and has been for a while. Although i'm sure there are a few people doing the ".NET component embedded in a website" thing, it kinda sucks, and cross-browser support is important again (even if just as a bragging point).<br><br>But MS needs that. For all the talk about IE being expanded to support existing and emerging web standards, that doesn't really help MS - the better the job they do, the _less_ likely they are to have the sort of vendor lock-in that is as tightly ingrained into the company culture as naive-yet-cynical rants are to my personality.<br><br>Silverfish is a given. It *has* to exist, in one form or another. There may never be more than a handful of MS sites or products that actually depend on it, but it still needs to exist and be pushed, just so the incredibly strong "try MS first" market has something to eat up.<br><br>See also: why IBM does a little of everything...Shog9Thu, 03 May 2007 14:34:53 -0000