Kenneth Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 17:09:30 CDT 2009
More responses (sorry, I've been bad about editing my Subject lately) Max Wanadoo > Thanks for the very interesting update, Ken. > You're welcome, but of course keep in mind the title of this thread ;) Shamil Salakhetdinov > ... MS will make it [searchable Silverlight apps] happen using Bing I > guess. ... > jwcolby > ...The only search engine that can see our Silverlite stuff is Bing... > So we have a minority market share search engine that can search a minority market share RIA platform. Surely, Bing and Silverlight will become more popular. Even so, it makes for a very interesting bet for potential early adopters, when HTML/CSS/Javascript is ubiquitous. Max Wanadoo > Surly to goodness, MS are entitle to make one of their own applications > without having to make it open source... > Microsoft's code can remain closed. If Silverlight has an open search specification, Google can surely compete. Closed spec = anti-competitive. -Ken