The Adobe vs. Microsoft Smackdown

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Update: I’m an idiot. The bus tour appears to have taken away my ability to read months correctly. Nothing to see here.

Heh, I just saw Mashable’s Adobe vs. Microsoft Smackdown today but it looks like it posted on Friday. I thought it was funny that the smakdown consisted of 4 products (Flash/Silverlight and Adobe Media Player/Windows Media Player) and the winner in each category was the technology that was actually released. This is the problem with talking about beta software; it’s tough to really compare it with what’s already out there.

But the number of comments and trackbacks are interesting. People are excited about this space. A smackdown article always gets people riled up but at the end of the day, it’s always good to see people discussing things. I also wan to give props to Pete for not doing a smackdown of Silverlight vs. AIR.

[tags]Adobe, Silverlight, Flash, Microsoft, Mashable[/tags]

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  • Perry

    How is this posted Friday? The article’s date is April 16th 2007. This is also before Microsoft announced support for .NET managed code in Silverlight 1.1.

    I do have to agree with not doing a smackdown on SL vs. AIR. Many people, including people that should know better, like to compare them.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Ouch, swing and a miss by me. I must be lower on sleep than I thought. Thanks for catching that.

  • http://techcruising.wordpress.com Vinodh

    Hey Stewart

    One thing which I have always found irritating about flash on the web is the “Click here to activate control” thingie which comes up as you hover over a flash control for the first time. Is there anything at all which can be done to prevent this. Enlighten me.