![]() ![]() Most home users are afraid to install it. It's less than 42% compared to Flash which is ~97%, so no company that wants to market something to the public will use Silverlight (Version 3, which the above sites use for video, has under 30% market penetration). Silverlight's penetration is really poor. It's basically only Netflix for their watch instantly function (because Microsoft owns a big chunk of Netflix and has people on their board) and the Olympics (because Microsoft pays them a huge chunk of cash to only use Silverlight and not Flash or Quicktime). Use of Silverlight exclusively is *very* rare on websites. Silverlight is not open source or open in any way shape or form and Microsoft has no intention of making it so according to Sam Ramji, director of platform technology strategy at Microsoft. ![]()
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