{"id":1000594,"date":"2007-05-02T05:24:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T10:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2007\/05\/02\/silverlight-makes-the-vrml-mistake\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T05:24:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T10:24:26","slug":"silverlight-makes-the-vrml-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2007\/05\/02\/silverlight-makes-the-vrml-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight Makes the VRML Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess Microsoft didn&#8217;t read this <a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.elharo.com\/ui\/why-vrml-failed-and-what-that-means-for-openoffice\/\">article<\/a>. Silverlight will run on the Mac but can&#8217;t be authored there. This means at least half the people who might think about developing for it won&#8217;t be able to.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just possibly Parallels may make this not quite as much of a handicap as the lack of native Mac support was for VRML. But mostly Silverlight looks a day late and a dollar short. I can&#8217;t see this taking any significant marketshare from Flash. The main converts will probably be sites already publishing Windows media. Adobe is willing to go to where the content creators and consumers are. Microsoft expects the creators and consumers to come to them. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft hires smart people and they often come up with good ideas, but the execution is always hobbled by attaching the Windows ball-and-chain. Nobody at Microsoft is allowed to produce a product that in any significant way threatens the Windows core monopoly. Adobe and Oracle and Google and IBM and Sun don&#8217;t have this problem. Startups don&#8217;t have this problem. <\/p>\n<p>The worst thing that ever happened to Microsoft was winning the antitrust case and not being broken up into separate operating system and application software companies. When good products are crippled or killed to protect other products, all you do is open up a window of opportunity for your competitors. A Microsoft applications company that didn&#8217;t care how their products would affect Windows would be a real threat to Adobe. Today&#8217;s Windows-\u00c3\u00bcber-alles Microsoft isn&#8217;t.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess Microsoft didn&#8217;t read this article. Silverlight will run on the Mac but can&#8217;t be authored there. This means at least half the people who might think about developing for it won&#8217;t be able to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}