Monday, October 29, 2007

Silverlight Slower than Flash Running WinForms?

So, Silverlight is Microsoft's whole competitor to Flash... and it's all .NET and everything... so how come WinForms works slower on Silverlight than on Flash?

I think it even looks a little bit better in Flash, though that may just be because of the size difference between the two examples.

Adobe's policy is to keep Windows off of Flash, because that would give Flash a bad reputation -- not like Windows Vista is a memory hog or everything. It seems like Kevin Lynch (Chief Software Architect) and I will have to sit down about this policy. Windows technology is making the move to Flash and is running more smoothly and with a smaller footprint than on similar (yet admittedly obsolete) Microsoft technology.

Just another example of how great the Flash platform is. Flash can make Windows run better than it's supposed to.

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