Flash Player 30 Jul 2008 03:31 pm
Microsoft chooses Flash to market Windows Vista
When major corporations and small businesses alike need to promote their most important products with high-end, engaging user experiences that combine multiple media formats with dynamic data and motion graphics they must make tough decisions on which rich client technologies they should bet their business on.
Like so many other companies, Microsoft chooses Flash. Can you blame them?
;-)
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30 Responses to “Microsoft chooses Flash to market Windows Vista”
on 30 Jul 2008 at 3:38 pm 1.John said …
Love it!!!! (the flash, not the vista)
on 31 Jul 2008 at 2:37 am 2.madaerodog said …
Imagine the faces of Microsoft devs using flash when they have silverlight in the bag :P
on 31 Jul 2008 at 3:34 am 3.Satheesh said …
well ‘madaerodog’… its actually a trash bag :)
Flash rocks :)
on 31 Jul 2008 at 11:22 am 4.Mike Downey said …
I can almost guarantee that this site was built by an outside agency and commissioned by a marketing team that may not have even been familiar with Silverlight – or they wanted to make sure visitors could actually view the site without installing their plugin.
It’s difficult to justify a plugin install with marketing-related content (vs destination content that people really want to see/use). We struggled with this problem with the Flash Player for years before it became so ubiquitous, thanks mostly to the explosion of online video. Pushing Silverlight out to Vista/XP users will help MSFT but I don’t think they’ll get huge, Flash Player-like, numbers until there is really compelling content driving downloads (like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc).
on 12 Aug 2008 at 7:03 am 5.madaerodog said …
It was a .. “would you kill your dog to save you daughter” situation :D poor silverlight dog.
Bottom line Vista has credibility issues on his own as an os, so further problems even with the site had to be dodged. And Flash was there to save the day :)
on 01 Sep 2008 at 11:30 pm 6.Thomas said …
MS was probably too embarrassed using Flash…it seems they recently changed it to Silverlight :)
on 25 Sep 2008 at 6:13 am 7.Billigfluge said …
I totally agree with you Mike. But I don´t know why they burned money for silverlight!!! Flash is know for it´s advantages, the marketing firm realized it, too and everybody knows it. So what for silverlight when it doesn´t work when microsoft needed it.
on 06 Oct 2008 at 7:41 am 8.Rob said …
I get “Install Silverlight” No flash
on 07 Oct 2008 at 5:45 am 9.Jman said …
hehe … check out the link now, the made a silverlight site instead. Maby because of this blog.
on 07 Oct 2008 at 10:53 am 10.oclement said …
Well this Silverlight version totally sucks! The Flash version was by far better.
on 09 Oct 2008 at 3:28 am 11.Arabbible said …
MS chooses Flash……….I guess they wanted a winner.
on 11 Oct 2008 at 2:29 pm 12.dt008 said …
Silverlight version is much, much better. Take a look at the DeepZoom technology being used and you’ll see why. Try doing this in Flash!
on 21 Nov 2008 at 11:03 am 13.Wesley ~ BeSik said …
As flash developers we all know why Flash is so much better, but for end users like our moms and dads they don’t see any difference. If it is moving around then the cool factor is there. Now with that said, I think it is great that Microsoft wants to go toe to toe with Adobe. And well with AIR it looks like Adobe is stepping into Microsoft’s domain as well. My opinion, we all could use a little fire under our butts to push us to be the best. Don’t get me wrong Silver Light doesn’t stand a chance in this war. When it comes to AIR it may be able to take off, but we need to help push it in our Flash sites. Be cool guys. ~ BeSiK
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“Silverlight version is much, much better. Take a look at the DeepZoom technology being used and you’ll see why. Try doing this in Flash!” OK one word Papervision3D. I uploaded an example form them. http://dusellfam.com/flashisbetter/ Its going to be an all out war, hope guys are getting ready for Web 3.0 ~ BeSiK
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