> > I believe MS's own site are done in Silverlight more and more, so that's one reason
>
> Silverlight's a fair amount easier to develop in than the alternatives since you can
> use your favorite .NET compatible language (C#, Visual Basic, IronPython, whatever)
> and the Visual Studio UI designer wizards. It's essentially the same as XNA, which
> all the Xbox 360 "Indie" games are written in, except with GUI support instead of
> DirectX hooks. That said, nobody has it installed and that means you're better off
> using Flash for sites you want a lot of people to see.
>
> Silverlight's also the environment apps are written in for Windows Phone 7 (it also
> has XNA available for games).
>
> > Another, question though, is what the heck is Adobe Air? yeah, another web player
> but
> > why when they already have Flash and Shockwave? - What does it do that they don't?
>
> Air's a layer on top of Flash that tries to make it a complete application platform.
> It's even clunkier than that sounds like, but RIM (the BlackBerry guys) are pretty
> much betting the company on it.
I've actually used a few AIR applications and they're okay, it's kinda crippled -on purpose- due to security issues.
It's great for downloading GOG.com's games, though!
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