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Microsoft now claims about one in four computers have Silverlight installed.

If this is true, Microsoft is doing better than I expected.

(And I'm a .NET developer, not one of those politically opposed to Silverlight because it isn't free enough for their particular preference of free)

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I don't believe those figures for a second. I'm usually surprised when I see SL installed on someone's system.

i have yet to view anything that makes me want to install silverlight. that's unlikely to change.

The Olympics.Streaming, high-quality, LIVE video feed. The low bandwidth quality SL content easily beat the high-bandwidth quality of Flash streams on sites like Hulu and Amazon VOD.

And that was just the beta.

"And that was just the beta."

I don't understand what you mean here. Do you think Microsoft will fund even more people to make SilverLight-exclusive content after the beta?

I'm sure they meant one in four computers at Microsoft HQ :)

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