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[–]Tiwaking 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I remember being taught Silverlight in 2010. It was absolute dogshit. Good riddance.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

What was that even for?

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun - 3 hours ago What was that even for?

It was meant to create 'media rich websites', web 2.0 stuff - but Adobe Flash was a hundred times better and easier to use. And Silverlight basically ran only on Internet Explorer which was not standard and is horrible. Microsoft standards are always worse than the alternative, which is nothing.

[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

These weren't killed by Microsoft. They were shit failed ideas. And YES they should not be allowed to buy startups just to eventually destroy them.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

sproketboy 2 insightful - 1 fun - an hour ago These weren't killed by Microsoft. They were shit failed ideas. And YES they should not be allowed to buy startups just to eventually destroy them.

You are right of course. A true 'Killed by Microsoft' would have things like 'Nokia' on it. "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

nice now do google and sort it by active users

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