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nosh:
I tried the Beta last year and I distinctly remember unpleasant things occurring  :), can't remember the specifics though - I know for sure that there were freezes/crashes involved. I'm just updating + backing up my system right now and it showed up as an optional component at MS Updates. I'm not installing it before imaging the system but am curious - what's the general consensus on Silverlight? Also, your take on Adobe Air... Adobe tends to remind me more and more of $ymantec these days... Reader bloat, etc. 

Curt:
Silverlight 1.0.21115.0 is working without any problems on my XP, but I have not yet come acrosss any real-life site that is using it, other than Microsoft's demo pages... so if you don't have it  you won't miss it.

http://silverlight.net/
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
http://silverlight.live.com/

I don't know anything about Adobe Air, because I don't have Air (!).

Curt:
-several years later and I still don't know if I have gained anything at all from having Silverlight installed. I have never come across a page (except demo pages) that made me realize Silverlight was in action. Examples, please? Or is Real Life that Silverlight is for coders only?

Edited:
Oh yeah - I meant the Siverlight program, not merely the browser plugin

MilesAhead:
I use it for Twit TV and Netflix.  Twit TV is fine but Netflix often the video is so dark it's like radio.  There's no way to adjust brightness and contrast.  Seems like either you have no problem at all, or it's just about useless for watching streaming movies.

If you go on Netflix's user forum there's a thread that will never die with 2 groups of posters.  The "it's so dark I can't see the movie" group and the "I don't have any problem at all" group.  Seems like there's some hw issue that no one is able or willing to delineate.


If you like Leo LaPorte then you might have reason to run it. :)

Curt:
-thanks  :up:

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BTW: I believe the proper form is plural: Windows, not a window...

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