OK. I can see the writing on the wall. Can you?

From ZDNET

Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week

"...but this week - specifically on January 22 - Microsoft will make its Adobe-Flash-alternative Silverlight available via WSUS, as well as via Microsoft Update (MU). In order to have Silverlight 1.0 pushed to users, admins will need to select it; it will be an optional, not automatic, download."

From the Silverlight Home Page

Microsoft(r) Silverlight(tm) is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.

Some of that writing we were talking about, over at WikiPedia.

California and several other U.S. States have asked a District Judge to extend Microsoft's antitrust case settlement for another five years,[35] citing "a number of concerns, including the fear that Microsoft could use the next version of Windows [expected in approximately 2010] to 'tilt the playing field' toward Silverlight, its new Adobe Flash competitor", says a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article.

Posted by Michael at January 21, 2008 04:58 PM