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Chrome’s JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Experts speaking at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft’s next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in…
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Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet’s next big competition. SEATTLE–As the world’s best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet’s next big competition….
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Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight ‘agenda’

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft’s rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content. Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, the founder of…
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Silverlight to star in NBC’s online Olympics coverage

Friday, April 25th, 2008

NBC is relying heavily on Microsoft’s Silverlight to present its online Olympic coverage which will include about 2,200 hours of free on-demand video. Perkins Miller is counting down the days to the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing this year. NBC’s senior vice president of…
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