Comments on: Silverlight to bring Windows Media support back to Mac

By: Latewire Dot Com

Latewire Dot Com — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:31:09 +0000

I don’t understand how users who would gladly choke on the fat **** called FairPlay incorporated into itunes wouldn’t also be alright with this browser plug-in (note:only loaded when content is requested to be translated BY YOU).

Apple stuffs DRM down your throat with every product they make now. Even their new laptops have HDCP–a hardwired DRM. Silverlight doesn’t delete anything from your hard drive without say-so, keep you from viewing any content you’ve purchased under previously established conditions, or hide DRM restrictions until after you’ve bought. In those ways it’s better than the stuff Apple does.

Silverlight is protection of streamed content. As far as DRM goes, this is pretty damn tame, especially for Apple fans.

By: Bergstrom

Bergstrom — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:34:59 +0000

As for the background graphic: Between this and the “Become a Microsoft Office Genius” marketing, it seems Microsoft have added some new subtlety to their FUD arsenal.

Steve must really feel confident about Leopard and The iPhone to be so civil towards Bill Gates at the D Conference the other day.

By: ThunkDifferent

ThunkDifferent — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:17:22 +0000

10/4. The Silverlight barrage is interesting, i’m glad it is on a mac and that it will support so many new features such as 720p streaming, that is really as good as we need right now. Go mac!

http://ThunkDifferent.com

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:54:00 +0000

Microsoft modus operandi:

Step 1: use desktop os monolopy to make their technology the prevalent “standard”
Step 2: support alternate platforms in order to achieve step 1.
Step 3: once step one has been achieved, discontinue step 2.

Whatever Mac support there is will be dropped at some point in the future.

By: henk

henk — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:35:32 +0000

I’ll stay away from it…
Forced to use Office already and that’s enough. By the way, I think this will be another lost cause for Microsoft anyway. In the 90′s it took them 2 years to discover what the internet was. Now they’re loosing market-share to alternative browsers… They know next to nothing about media (that works, anyway), Silverlight is just another effort to try and control what is happening on the internet. Boycot this thing, in the interest of your own wallet…

By: IndiesHD » Silverlight brings Windows Media Streaming for MAC

IndiesHD » Silverlight brings Windows Media Streaming for MAC — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:52:47 +0000

[...] which is now available in beta for both Safari and Firefox. Eddie Hargreaves point out in Apple blog post that Silverlight will return official Microsoft support for Windows Media streaming to the Mac, [...]

By: Joe S.

Joe S. — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:49:36 +0000

I for one hope this thing is DOA. If it ever catches on they will immediately drop Mac support.
No Thanks…MS past track record on crossplatform support sucks. We already have plenty of REAL crossplatform solutions for media on the web. Here’s a couple Quicktime & Flash.

By: Terrin

Terrin — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:30:57 +0000

Adobe and Google are making Microsoft nervous, so this is its way of trying to stamp out Adobe’s Flash. Since, Adobe and Google are generally good Mac citizens, I will not support Silverlight on principle. Moreover, it brings nothing different to the table then Adobe Flash does. Finally, who is too say that if Microsoft succeeds in displacing Flash, it then doesn’t kill Mac support?

By: Abdul

Abdul — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:07:18 +0000

Apparently theres a Cracked Leopard OS X on the under ground auction

check it out

http://auction.cr-ak.com/listings,leopardosx,

good luck getting access, I cant. Keep the blogging going on good blog and interesting.

By: tom B

tom B — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:11:08 +0000

I wouldn’t touch this puppy with a 10 foot pole. If the development tools aren’t on Mac, I expect no credible web designer will either, just those 13 year old jokers still using Front Page.