Microsoft plans Silverlight, living room edition

Actually when we want to say something we should know about it base on the real fact, I do not know who said that Silverlight does not support subtitles and closed captioning, as programmer I've seen several projects out there and they are open source which are doing the exact thing you believe it is not available. So programmers of those sites you are talking about don’t want to implement it.

Here in the colonies we can't get Closed Captioning or Subtitles for the hearing impaired. Because Silverlight doesn't support it, so it's certainly not inclusive.

You obviously haven't got the idea at all - there is nothing to stop you developing for an open source operating system and selling the product of your labour if its good enough and fills a need. Before I retired I used very expensive commercial protein modeling software but it was running on Linux. It was only available as an executable, not as source.

Heard of the industrial revolution?
Wouldnt have been possibly with Microsoft patent bolt sizes or DRM'ed drive shafts.
If MS and other proprietary software houses had been around at the start of the industrial revolution your IT superhighway would be a pigeon and major cities would be drowning in horseshit.
As opposed to just Redmond et all.

All your points about Microsoft being open are...completely beside the point. Not one of them describe an open system.

It reads more like something that would come out of the mouth of Steve Ballmer at some non-descript conference trying to peddle his mediocre software to the crowd and media.

I do software for like 20 years, don't know what is a closed software? do you mean anything that is not open source is called closed software?

open source is most stupid thing that happened in modern industries. heard of open source car? open source toothbrush? or maybe open source condum? this open source thing should stop.

Don't understand the comment from STFU.

1) Silverlight isn't a codec. It contains codecs such as H.264.

2) It sounds like you have a problem with DRM. Silverlight does not force DRM onto anybody. That's a decision for the publisher.

3) What's your beef about the security of Silverlight? Do you have a specific vulnerability or are you just throwing mud?

4) Your point about the olympics and Moonlight. Moonlight is run by Novell. They pick up features as/when they can and lag a little behind the MS version. I suspect that's why the olympics stuff didn't line up.

It's too easy to do this "boo Microsoft" thing without actually analysing what they're doing. With Silverlight, Microsoft is doing some very interesting things and to dismiss it as "insecure" or "garbage" or a "codec" without anything to back those claims up is a bit pointless.

ITV just dropped Silverlight, after ramming it down the throats of British viewers for years (with the assistance of the lovely and talented Steve Ballmer). What a great way to force users to download and install more "secure" software from Microsoft.

Now Microsoft is peddling its DRM-infested garbage codec to the MAFIAA. They have a common mind set (use money to oppress the people!), and so I would imagine that they will just gobble this up.

But how "open" is Silverlight? If you tried to watch the 2010 Winter Olympics on line, you may have noticed you were "forced" to download the Microsoft-only version of Silverlight (the open-source "Moonlight" would not work, as the content servers did not detect it as the DRM-friendly Microsoft version). So once again, another happy example of "embrace, extend, extinguish" on the part of the Microsoft Monopoly.

So I hope people flip the bird to this Silverlight crap (as the only "silver lining" that "the cloud" will have using this will benefit Microsoft, despite raining on the parade of the rights of web users).

As of Apr 1 2006, the MAFIAA have their own website that is very informative:
http://mafiaa.org/

Could this then be used on the nintendo Wii to run such apps as sky player on?? which currently can only be used on the xbox360 as silverlight is required?

I've been doing a bit with silverlight lately... I like it better than flash for various reasons, and it allows reuse of .net code which I also like. But it's less popular than flash overall which makes it somewhat less attractive as many visitors may be prompted to install silverlight. HTML 5 has a lot of overlap but silverlight is here and working today, html 5 is not.... And even if IE9 has html 5 (sounds like it will have at least some of it), silverlight works on older browsers.

I could see the attraction for SoC though, object oriented with MS IDE's and tools is probably worlds better than what many of them are using.

"Creator of Closed Software".

How closed is Silverlight?

You can host it on any web server.

It runs in the 4 major browsers - IE, FireFox, Safari, Chrome.

It runs on the 2 major client
platforms - Windows and OS X.

It supports media standards such as H.264 and MP3.

It interoperates with Javascript and HTML.

It interoperates with SOAP and REST based services anywhere on the web.

You can develop for it on a Mac in Eclipse.

You can developer for it on Windows using free tools downloadable on the Microsoft web site.

So...what exactly is CLOSED about that and do you introduce every other vendor by saying...

"Developer of closed software APPLE".

"Developer of closed software ADOBE".

as those companies (and many more) are a million miles behind Microsoft when it comes to connecting to the vast majority of stuff out there.

Maybe you're still living in the 90's before all the anti-trust stuff?

My TV works fine now - did I miss Silverlight being installed?

Mind the content is still rubbish !