To save Vista, Microsoft chooses Adobe Flash Player, again!
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Friday, September 05, 2008
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/#
What is funny is that they included the Silverlight.js files to make it seem like Silverlight is in use here. Right click, it is Flash.
Cheers,
Ted :)
hmm, you may want to retract. i see silverlight content.
WHen I right clicked says Silverlight configuration ... ?
It's Silverlight on my machine dude. Maybe they use flash if silverlight is not available.
I'm seeing silverlight. Did they change at the last minute?
if you have silverlight installed, it is silverlight...
Actually, if you have Silverlight installed it will use it first, then fall back to FlashPlayer.
I ran this with Silverlight, the graphics look nicer, and the video is larger, However, I just got static for the video sound, and it stopped a lot.
Of course I had zero problems running it in Flash.
I have tested on 2 MACs where SL is installed and under Firefox it defaults to Flash Player.
Ted :)
your SL plugin must be disabled then...I just tried myself as well on same configuration. Default is the SL experience.
That's weird. I see it in flash and I definitely have silverlight installed too.
Tim,
It is cool that the technical failover is Adobe Flash Player. I just know that implementing video 2 different ways is a real pain in the ass and something a real customer would not do unless they were paid.
In using Flash Player at least the other 80% of end users can watch this marketing.
Ted :)
Very user freandly, impressive comming from microsoft
I have no Silverlight installed, but do have Flash Player - and I see nothing whatsoever - not even a prompt to get SL. Go M$! Consistently providing the worst experiences through poorly implemented technologies and code.
silverlight here--like pure clean water.
Maybe you could show me something as impressive as the DNC in Flash.
Well new this week:
Watch NFL Football Online
http://www.nfl.com/snf
Watch TV OnDemand at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=16261631
Or here is an interesting read on how the rest of the world watched the Olympics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/sports/olympics/22cctv.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Ted :)
yeah, I watched some of the amazon stuff yesterday--there's a great example of Flash.
now, for the NFL... that thing was so bad! I don't mean to belittle anyone who worked on it--I'm sure they tried. But I can say without reservation that that thing was on par with the worst implemented "experiences" of all time:
--the ad logic was insulting (like every time you change camera views!).
--the performance was terrible.
--the synchronization was terrible.
--the video quality was terrible.
Other than that, it was sweet! Seriously, I would respectfully recommend this is not an example to showcase.
(Amazon app is good though!)
Visiting with Vista(running IE8)without Silverlight installed it's Windows Media Player.
I've really been enjoying the blog and the videos from 360Flex! I also thought Microsoft's first commercial was really really lacking and didn't make sense. But equally not making sense is the suggestion that Microsoft would purposely include the Silverlight.js file to "make it seem like Silverlight is in use here" when the average user can just right click the content and see it is Adobe Flash. I'm rooting for Flash (as both a developer and ADBE stockholder) but hope that Silverlight seriously competes so as to push Adobe to even higher heights (and to get the team to fix the annoying bugs like lack of mouse-wheel support on Mac, click hit area on Firefox 2 on PCs, etc.) Exciting times.
Using Chrome doesn't show anything. Just a black area over the page. No word about what I should install also. I have FP10RC and SL just doesn't install on Chrome. Firefox3 shows SL for me.
Hehe Google Chrome ask for Flash Player !!!.. NOT Silver Ligth
ewww SilverFish!
It's like comparing skim milk to chocolate milk. Flex and Flash Player all the way, even if Microsoft uses it :)
Ironic at first, until I recall Tinic at Flashforward demoing fixing bugs for Flash using MS Visual Studio.
it really is a non-story... interesting perhaps. Back in the day, there was some uproar when a microsoft logo was found to be drawn on a mac... when the flash mx animation was produced using AfterEffects (from Adobe--the arch enemy of Macromedia)... and so on and so on.
Does Adobe have any licenses of MS Office? Surely, no one would use MS Word when they have Buzzword as an alternative.
The bottom line in my opinion is that no one from the real world cares about this. When they choose to watch the olympics they don't care if it's Flash or Silverlight. And, in even for us developers it doesn't matter.
Hmm, you know, it's weird about that auto-detection, 'cause I keep seeing Jerry and Bill pop up in RealMedia.... ;-)
jd/adobe