Comments on: 2010: The Year of Microsoft on the Web?

By: Simon Pang

Simon Pang — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:08:18 +0000

See the real power of silverlight examples

(1) A free “real time” stock market web charting tool. It’s totally done by Silverlight 2.0 and I used it under FF3 like a charm. Note, there is a paid version, but I’ve used the free version for a while for my own stock analysis (real time)
http://freestockcharts.com/

(2)A fancy calendar control you can implement a outlook97-like interface in your own web application. Demo here: http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Home

I bet silverlight having much more potentials than Flash.

By: Googleverse

Googleverse — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:11 +0000

Well it could be year of Google too, when Cheome OS will be out of beta.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:16:38 +0000

Great stuff! Along with these and Web Apps, Office Beta 2010 has great web connectivity. Including the social connector in outlook and being able to save directly to the cloud.

Cheers,
Andy
MSFT Office Outreach Team

By: pingpong

pingpong — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:51:38 +0000

Silverlight has no chance against Flash except LOB applications, regardless of its technical merits.

By: Jamie Thomson

Jamie Thomson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:19:24 +0000

You missed the other big thing they’re doing – Windows Live Wave 4. This will incorporate improved versions of the existing Windows Live services, Office Web Apps and Live Mesh – all built into a single destination. That is huge and, in my opinion, bigger than any of the things you mentioned above. In fact, I wouldn’t even expect IE9 to be with us until 2011.

-Jamie

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:45:32 +0000

Good post. The one thing you didn’t expand on with Google/FF is that Google is a major contributor financially to FF, but is also now competing against them. If I was FF, I would want to find new sources of funding and perhaps hedge my bets from all Google, to maybe a blend of Google and other search engines.