Adobe's comments on Silverlights release
The CEO of Adobe has a few words on Microsofts newest release, Silverlight, and they aren't as harsh as expected.Adobe just released a Flash-based Media Player called Adobe Media Player. It's an online and offline player that is capable of tagging, rating, and sharing videos and runs off of the new Apollo rich internet application development platform. Needless to say, Microsoft bit back by releasing a Flash competitor called Silverlight. It's a next generation, cross platform, cross browser web client runtime that allows for the playback of rich interactive applications.
Bruce Chizen, the CEO of Adobe shared a few thoughts about the Silverlight platform in an interview today in Tokyo. Chizen believes that Microsoft might not be committed to keeping its platform compatible with other operating systems beside Windows, since they have demonstrated their stand with other applications. On the other hand, Flash has been around for over 10 years, works strongly with every platform, and has become the industry standard and is used on top sites like YouTube to deliver streaming video across the web.
Check out the rest of the interview here.
