"Nothing other than just more endless anti-MS crying. but Give me a break..."
Did Microsoft buy Adobe when I wasn't looking? This isn't anti-MS, it is anti-proprietary.
Personally, I hate Adobe Flash. I do not like webpages that can decide to download and play annoying or distracting video on my browser without my express permission. If you disable Flash in IE, it complains incessantly and keeps trying to re-download and enable it. This was one of the main reasons I switched to Firefox and NoScript.
There are whole sites that depend on Flash to deliver their content. Needless to say, I AVOID these sites. They don't have anything of value that I want.
The real key here is that Flash and Silverlight both require proprietary executables to be downloaded to your computer. Both of these "phone home" to their respective corporate sites, and you have little or no control about how they do it, how often, or what information they send. You also have no control over any security holes they may open in your computer or your network. That is just unacceptable to me. I may have to put up with it just to use the dominant desktop software (WindowsXP), but I'm not willing to compromise just to get an ancillary capability that is used to annoy me more often than it is used to assist me ...
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