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[Chris Losinger]

4/17/2008 : Microsoft has announced WIMPEL, which will deliver the next generation of rich interactive media experiences across the internet. 4/27/2009 : Microsoft has announced WWVS, which will deliver the next generation of rich interactive media experiences across the internet. 3/21/2010 : Microsoft has announced mVS, which will deliver the next generation of rich interactive media experiences across the internet. ...

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[Chris Maunder]

Many webdevs have done a reasonable job of ignoring Flash over the years. I'm not sure how this is different...

cheers, Chris Maunder

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[Virtual Coder]

Marc Clifton wrote:

It doesn't support *nix platforms.

Well, it's a Microsoft product! What do you expect? :) :-D :laugh:

[Marc Clifton]

Chris Maunder wrote:

Many webdevs have done a reasonable job of ignoring Flash over the years. I'm not sure how this is different...

Because it's Microsoft. And yes, that's a partly flippant answer, but partly not. Marc

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[Marc Clifton]

4/1/2015 : Al Gore, the creator of the Internet, sells the rights to the Internet to Microsoft for $1 trillion. Al says he will invest the money in solar panels. Marc

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People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

[Xiangyang Liu]

Chris Losinger wrote:

4/17/2008 : Microsoft has announced WIMPEL, which will deliver the next generation of rich interactive media experiences across the internet. 4/27/2009 : Microsoft has announced WWVS, which will deliver the next generation of rich interactive media experiences across the internet. 3/21/2010 : Microsoft has announced mVS, which will deliver the next generation of rich interactive media experiences across the internet.

2/10/2011 : Internet is choked to death by all these interactive media technologies from Microsoft. All Microsoft developers commit suicide on the same day. :-D

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[Pete OHanlon]

Unless it brings value to our clients, I would not expect to be doing anything with it for a very long time to come. After all, I haven't needed to use Flash so far so I really don't see why I will be using this.

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[Dan Neely]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Actually, it's WPF/E, which is a subset of WPF.

So the E stands for eviscerated?

-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?

[Xiangyang Liu]

Marc Clifton wrote:

4/1/2015 : Al Gore, the creator of the Internet, sells the rights to the Internet to Microsoft for $1 trillion. Al says he will invest the money in solar panels.

Sorry, I think you missed an important news in 2011 (see below). By 2015, internet is only worth a handful of dollars. Post Office, however, becomes the new Microsoft. :-D

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Marc Clifton wrote:

4/1/2015 : Al Gore, the creator of the Internet, sells the rights to the Internet to Microsoft for $1 trillion. Al says he will invest the money in solar panels.

Hey! You made me spurt the tea out of my nose. :laugh: :laugh:

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[Michael Dunn]

Chris Maunder wrote:

...because there aren't enough video-based ad-delivery plug-ins in this world...

... that will be blocked by a Firefox extension 5 seconds after being released.

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