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Microsoft eats their own dog food with Silverlight on Microsoft.com

A few weeks ago, we were given the release news of Microsoft/Surface. Shortly before that, we got the word about Silverlight. I wrote a blog post asking why the demo was done in flash instead of Silverlight. There were some sarcasm, along with a few very good answers. You can only adopt this new technology so fast. Even if it's your own new technology.

Today I'm happy to see the home page of Microsoft.com sporting some Silverlight. Getting the bits out there, slowly but surely. Very nice! Very nice!

I think we're going to start seeing Silverlight more and more. This is good for all of us. I think the number one question I hear about Silverlight deals with browser coverage. Something like "How long will it take before the mass public will have Silverlight?". If a few of the other top 100 sites get involved in Silverlight, I think the adpotion rate could see 50% in less than a year.

With Silverlight being used on the home page, MS is saying, this is it; it's easy to use, stable, and we believe in it. On a related note, I also read that Microsoft.com is currently being hosted on Windows server 2008. I love that these brand new technologies are stable enough to run Microsoft.com. After all (as of today) Microsoft.com has a 3 month Alexa average of being the 12 busiest site online. That's a lot of pages to serve.

Congratulations to the Microsoft.com team - good work!

Posted: Jun 17 2007, 09:57 PM by scott cate | with 13 comment(s)
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# June 18, 2007 1:54 AM

Peter said:

MS.com takes me to www.morganstanley.com; are you talking about Microsoft or Morgan Stanley?

# June 18, 2007 9:10 AM

scott cate said:

Peter, Yes I'm referring to Microsoft.com - sorry - in my daily slang I refer to Microsoft as MS.

I have updated the text in the post from MS.com to Microsoft.com.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

# June 18, 2007 9:35 AM

preishuber said:

a few minutes later the silverlight application is away :-(

# June 18, 2007 11:28 AM

rodrigo said:

Silverlight has a serious problem...doesn't run on windos 2000.

# June 18, 2007 12:34 PM

scott cate said:

preishuber - Yup, I just checked and it's not longer on the home page.

Hmm, letting the mind go wild....

.... could this have been a trial run to grab some statistics over the weekend

.... could they have discovered something wrong with Silverlight?

the real answer is we don't know, but hopefully someone on the team will talk about it.

To me this is still win/win. What better testing environment for me, than Microsoft.com? By that I mean, not in a million years could I have an environment that would put the Silverlight installs to there tests like the home page of Microsoft.com. But now, the knowledge gained from this weekend, gets baked into the product, and ultimately we all benefit.

Software is about evolution. Try it. Fix it. Repeat.

# June 18, 2007 12:52 PM

scott cate said:

I understand that this may be a concern to many legacy apps, and many coporations and governments who are still running 2000 for **many many** valid reasons.

That being said, this is new technology. It has a new ([fill in the blank]________ model. Not everything can be backward compatible.

# June 18, 2007 12:56 PM

Roger said:

I don't think they should be promoting sliverlight yet. Why get people to install a beta product (except for devs)? That doesn't make sense. That's why surface.com is done with flash. Once sliverlight goes 1.0/1.1 then start using it. Until then? no thanks.

# June 18, 2007 1:39 PM

scott cate said:

Roger, if the product has a go live, then it can be used in production.

I'm sure that the software is easier to "update" or even "auto update" once it's installed, so getting it onto a client isn't any loss. in fact, I would still see it as a win.

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# December 27, 2007 1:54 PM

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going to read more

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