And only Microsoft could champion cross platform web apps by forcing you to view the demo video, not in a native format, not in the ubiquitous, cross-platform Flash, but Silverlight. Guess that shows me how much interest I should continue to have in it.
Microsoft lives and dies by lock-in. They are not going to start using competitors' technologies (not without their own magic dust, at least; see EEE/Halloween memo) simply for user convenience when they could be furthering Microsoft/Office/Windows/DirectX lock-in by shoving their custom stuff down your throat.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732537
And only Microsoft could champion cross platform web apps by forcing you to view the demo video, not in a native format, not in the ubiquitous, cross-platform Flash, but Silverlight. Guess that shows me how much interest I should continue to have in it.