ActiveX, the father of all vulnerability, and mother of the invention of viruses. and silverlight isn't activex, it's MS's version (or answer to) of JAVA/flash and is a whole language and not just a movie format.
It's very simple, there's the dumb masses, they already are loaded with silverlight, and probably use IE too and then there's those that know they don't want it, making silly statements and sneering won't convince those.
Sorry IE treats it as an activex control and other browsers its a plugin. Its still a small install that has no inherit backlash to installing it, so whats the big deal. Is your pc to sacred or is this your stand to destroy Silverlight, I prefer live streaming on Silverlight then Flash, anything else its usually flash.
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they had me till it required I install silverlight. Sorry MS - my attention is going elsewhere~
Please stay away from sharp objects.... I don't want you cuttng yourself because one video happen to be on silverligth instead of Flash or Quicktime.
its amazing how hard it is to install an activex control, isn't it.
Active X? Who uses IE anymore? Every other (current) browser is much faster than IE
ActiveX, the father of all vulnerability, and mother of the invention of viruses. and silverlight isn't activex, it's MS's version (or answer to) of JAVA/flash and is a whole language and not just a movie format.
It's very simple, there's the dumb masses, they already are loaded with silverlight, and probably use IE too and then there's those that know they don't want it, making silly statements and sneering won't convince those.
Sorry IE treats it as an activex control and other browsers its a plugin. Its still a small install that has no inherit backlash to installing it, so whats the big deal. Is your pc to sacred or is this your stand to destroy Silverlight, I prefer live streaming on Silverlight then Flash, anything else its usually flash.