Starting today, an ambitious project from the Mozilla Foundation called "Lorentz" makes its first public, experimental debut, with the release of a public beta of Firefox 3.6.4.
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H.264 - A sting in the tail
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The search for the next-generation video codec for the open web has reached an impasse. Few of the options are truly open or free, and those that are free are not being pushed by the major forces.
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Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure
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Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.
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Salivating Over Silverlight
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If Novell's vice president is "droolingly" Microsoft's, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?
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Novell Promotes Silverlight
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More evidence arrives showing that Novell is simply advancing Microsoft at the expense of GNU/Linux
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Be a Martian - Part One
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Caltech/NASA/JPL have a new website aiming to drive interest in the Mars project. The problem is that Microsoft designed the site, using Silverlight, which isn't compatible with Free Operating Systems.
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Silverlight multi-platform support is falling apart
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I had previously pointed out that the lack of supported platforms was a serious problem for Silverlight, especially when compared to Flash. The root of the problem was that Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, is usually at least one release behind the Windows and mac versions of Silverlight. This caused confusion for developers as it was not clear which features would work on Linux.
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Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent
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The prominent role of Silverlight in the Intel-Microsoft collaboration leads to a new set of questions
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Why Microsoft won't fight moblin
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There have been quite a few Moblin related announcements these last weeks: The release of the final version of Moblin 2.0, the Moblin Garage and the preview release of Moblin 2.1. More interesting is the news released by Microsoft's Silverlight team that they will develop Silverlight 3 for Moblin.
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Microsoft betrays Moonlight in the sense that suddenly it gives Intel access to Silver Lie, for Moblin
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Novell Fails with Moonlight
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Moonlight is neither ready for reliable use, nor is it ready for non-Novell customers to safely use
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Microsoft People Promote Microsoft Moonlight Again
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Microsoft Hostility Towards XML Expands to Hostility Towards HTML
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Microsoft is looking to repossess documents by harming ODF, PDF, and HTML, using patents, FUD, RAND, and Silverlight
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HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
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HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
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New York Times — Just Like National Baseball — Dumps Microsoft Silverlight
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Microsoft's GNU/Linux-hostile vision of the Web is not catching on
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