The iPad may be just what Microsoft needed. The hard to gain traction Silverlight initiative may be the recipient of increased momentum due to the iPad.
Job’s concerns about the Adobe flash product may be legitimate.iPad Vs Flash: Jobs Calls Adobe Lazy
Sometime ago I switched my home computer from Adobe’s free PDF reader to Foxit simply because I was tired of all the startup processes adobe chucked in to the computer. As well as the update process itself since version 6 really made updates more intrusive.
Foxit is lightweight easy to use with tabbed documents little update notification and fast for simple PDF viewing.
So, with Silverlight so far failing to replace Flash for websites this might be the snowball start Microsoft needed.
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