“In a blow to Microsoft, ITV has switched the technology powering its web streaming service from Silverlight to Adobe’s more widely installed Flash,” Chris Williams reports for The Register.
“‘ITV can confirm it has switched from Microsoft’s Silverlight to Adobe Flash to support the ITV Player on ITV.com,’ a spokeswoman said today,” Williams reports.
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Nick Wingfield reports for The Wall Street Journal, “Over the past two years, Microsoft has poured resources into its technology for online video and animation — dubbed Silverlight — and has boosted its ability to deliver high-definition video with the technology. Silverlight is positioned as a rival to Adobe’s technology, which is known as Flash.”
“Adobe’s dominance with Flash presents Microsoft with the kind of brick wall that has stymied many tech companies as they laid siege to Microsoft’s own software businesses, like operating systems and productivity applications,” Wingfield reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dirty Pierre le Punk” for the heads up.]