Silverlight is not Microsofts first attempt to compete with Flash

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at April 16th, 2007

Way back in the day, Microsoft tried selling Liquid Motion which was their animation program to compete with Flash. They still have a page up for it – http://www.microsoft.com/mind/1198/liquid/liquid.asp. I think they’d rather just forget it. :)

I’m hoping ~~Silverfish~~ Silverlight will do a little better.

*** if you want to watch the Silverlight video, you need the Silverlight plugin (and the site doesn’t alert you if you don’t have it). ~~Also, I could only get the video to work in IE. No suprise there.~~ Rebooted and it works in Firefox and Safari.
Good Luck Microsoft. :)

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1. May 14th, 2007 02:55

Well…I’m not sure

Eli
2. July 1st, 2007 02:51

i want the name ‘legends ‘with flash

muthu

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