[dba-Tech] The state of the web

I think you are very correct.

The following graph says it all and the main reason for Microsoft's sudden
launch forward with a totally new environment, Win8.

http://tinyurl.com/d4udbk2

It clearly shows that iOS and particularly Android, has wiped out
Microsoft's decade of dominance, in which MS held about 90 to 95 percent of
the personal computer market but in three short years, they lost over 50
percent of their market share.

Whether this trend will continue unchallenged or whether MS will rise to the
challenge is still a question. The next three years will say it all, success
or oblivion. Periods like this are always best as there is always a lot of
good innovation from all sectors of computing market.

At this time, I think it is best for developers to keep away from making any
firm commitments to any particular hardware and OS platforms and rather
stick to Open Source and Open Standard products where at all possible.
 
Jim

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Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:47 PM
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Silverlight is a dead product. Microsoft is all about touting HTML5 these
days and keeping Silverlight at arms length. Notice that they don't support
Silverlight in Metro app development.

Besides, it's not wise to use an application framework for internet
applications/media that isn't cross platform or supported across all
browsers and that's part of the reason it never amounted to much. Another
major reason is because Microsoft holds no weight on the mobile platform
and, if your video doesn't play on an apple iphone or samsung galaxy because
you decided to use silverlight to stream it, well... you have yourself a
problem.

Hans



On 2012-12-05, at 1:16 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> LightSwitch looks like a great application allowing very quick development
> but have not had an opportunity to use it myself.
> 
> SilverLight is a browser plugin and though I have not used it, doubt that
it
> is allowed on all browsers and on all platforms?
> 
> Jim  
>