Existing users, 
Microsoft Silverlight
Render rich media content on the web.
Version: 4.0 beta
Lame Users
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: MoonlightofDeath Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 05:22 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
All this Microsoft bashing is worthless to people who actually might consider this product (like me). If anyone has ever used Office 2004 for Mac or Remote Desktop Connection, the Mac software from Microsoft is completely stable. Since noone else can provide useful information, I am gonna hold off on this as I don't prefer beta. Word of advice, this is a browser extension so I wouldn't install it till final release because if this crashes. your whole browser crashes.
Comments
Lame Users - MoonlightofDeath
Well completely stable isn't the word. However, the software is actually better on the Macintosh then the PC. I know as I have Office 2003 and Office 2004 for Mac. I went ahead and installed the plugin as I got a feeling noone else wants to try it. Besides, most software phones home and people don't even realize it, this is really no different. Even Mac OS X Server phones home and I don't see 1 person bashing it. Well, I'm not gonna rant anymore.Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 05:59 PM PST
Not so Lame Users - rspress2005_dotmac
I am a Microsoft Certified System Engineer and I think that Microsoft deserves a little bashing now and then. It is nice that they are including something that will let their content work on other platforms. Many of their content creation tools will make content that can only be viewed on a Windows machine running Internet Exploorer. One of the biggest uses of this was a complaint form on the Microsoft site for people using platforms other than Windows to complain about the Department of Justice rulings and how they were complying. For a long time you could only access the page using IE under WIndows.I consider Micrsoft program as bug-free as most software out there, hardly bulletproof but mostly stable. I do find remote desktop nice for running windows programs on a Mac from a Windows server but the program is so old now and its age is showing rather badly.
Sunday, February 11 2007 @ 06:46 AM PST
Lame Users - Gennx30
I had a Real Estate friend who could not access the MLS on the Web.It would work only with MSIE5/6-nothing else.
She bought an Intel Mac, and at first tried PARALELLS-which meant she had to get hold of a copy of XP-which meant spending money, and then having a bunch of useless junk on her computer taking up a lot of space.
Then she discovered CROSSOVER, at 30Mb, so she wiped Parallels and XP off her Macbook, and Bingo! suddenly had a few Gb of extra space.
Not chopped liver.
She then installed MSIE 6 and it works fine.
Apparently CO are working to make many MS apps work smoothly on a Mac-not as emulation but natively.
And she only had to use about 50 Mb of her drive
And I think she is immune to MS virues.
Saturday, May 05 2007 @ 12:41 PM PDT
Lame Users - OJB
Microsoft software completely stable? Do you actually use it? As an IT support person in an organisation with thousands of users I can assure you MS software causes more problems than all the rest combined! But I agree that MS bashing without using the product is a bit unfair. OTOH it is the associated tricks (breaking standards, sending info to MS) which are the main problem here.Reply to This
Saturday, February 10 2007 @ 05:46 PM PST