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    Brent Lamborn
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    Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

    Brent

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      Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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      John M Drescher
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      Probably because they do not host their web sites and thus they have to use whatever their host does.

      John

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        Probably because they do not host their web sites and thus they have to use whatever their host does.

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        vaghelabhavesh
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        John M. Drescher wrote:

        they do not host their web sites a

        Do you mean Microsoft? I will be stunned if this is true. They have their own cloud and they don't even host their own website :doh:

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          Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

          Brent

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          hairy_hats
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          More importantly, why a celeb site? :zzz:

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            Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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            Nish Nishant
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            Flash still has far greater coverage than Silverlight. That must have been their driving reason for choosing Flash.

            Regards, Nish


            Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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              More importantly, why a celeb site? :zzz:

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              Brent Lamborn
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              That's what I thought when I first read about it too, then I figured MS saw it as a way to spread Silverlight, until I saw it was Flash.

              Brent

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                Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                ABitSmart
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                check the google styled menu on top right. Click on 'More v'. it will pop out an option window(i found it ugly and not matching the theme of the site, guess its just picked up from the msn site[^]) of options and won't go away unless you clicked on 'More v' once again. i wasted 10 secs clicking everywhere outside that window and trying to figure out how to get away with it. they made me realise how dumb i am, once again :sigh:

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                  Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                  Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                  They didn't have a Silverlight developer open to do it so they advertised a requirement for a developer with 5 years experience in Silverlight or Flash. Having no Silverlight candidates they were forced to do Flash.

                  Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                  If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
                  Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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                  • V vaghelabhavesh

                    John M. Drescher wrote:

                    they do not host their web sites a

                    Do you mean Microsoft? I will be stunned if this is true. They have their own cloud and they don't even host their own website :doh:

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                    Shog9 0
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                    Yeah, they try to keep it quiet, but all Microsoft websites are actually hosted on Geocities. They tried to bring it all in-house by buying up Yahoo! last year, but it didn't pan out.

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                      They didn't have a Silverlight developer open to do it so they advertised a requirement for a developer with 5 years experience in Silverlight or Flash. Having no Silverlight candidates they were forced to do Flash.

                      Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                      If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
                      Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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                      Baconbutty
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                      :)

                      My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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                        Yeah, they try to keep it quiet, but all Microsoft websites are actually hosted on Geocities. They tried to bring it all in-house by buying up Yahoo! last year, but it didn't pan out.

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                        vaghelabhavesh
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                        Hmm......Thanks for clearing it out. :-)

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                          Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          Brent Lamborn wrote:

                          Why Flash?

                          Indeed. If you want people to see you naked, just go naked, it's very liberating, more people should do it (but not kid sisters, nor weird uncles).

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                            Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                            Lost User
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                            Why use flash to create a dark gray scrollable empty panel? (why create it at all?) Or is that just my ad blocker :laugh:

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                              Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                              Stuart Dootson
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                              Brent Lamborn wrote:

                              Why Flash and not Silverlight?

                              Why either of them?

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                                Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                                Oakman
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                                Green Arrow was busy.

                                Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

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                                  Green Arrow was busy.

                                  Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

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                                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                                  Oakman wrote:

                                  Green Arrow was busy

                                  LOL, I'm more of a Marvel or Dark Horse man myself but I've dabbled in DC too :D

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                                    Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

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                                    megaadam
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                                    Yeah Nish is right. It could be because Flash is something people actually use! ;P

                                    ........................ Life is too shor

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                                      They didn't have a Silverlight developer open to do it so they advertised a requirement for a developer with 5 years experience in Silverlight or Flash. Having no Silverlight candidates they were forced to do Flash.

                                      Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                                      If you don't ask questions the answers won't stand in your way.
                                      Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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                                      ToddHileHoffer
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                                      LOL :laugh:

                                      I didn't get any requirements for the signature

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