Microsoft products?
Filed under General by Brett Reid at 01:08am June 2nd, 2007This year we’ve been treated to two brand new “Microsoft technologies”.
The first started life out known as Sparkle but has since been renamed ‘Microsoft Silverlight‘. It’s a media delivery platform, supposedly competition for Adobe’s Flash. New technology? Hardly, Flash has been around forever. Okay so now that Microsoft has a ‘better’ alternative to Flash, surely you’d expect them to USE this on their own website? Don’t be silly.
Next we have ‘Microsoft Surface‘. Oh look, it’s using Flash 9 to deliver it’s content. What happened to Silverlight? Earlier this year I was sent a link to TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). The link showed a gifted student showcasing his latest project. It looked incredible and the audience were blown away. (by the way TED seems to be running on CodeIgniter)
3 months later it’s branded, boxed and being shipped as a Microsoft product.
Dodgy. *cough*