Comments on: Netflix Announces Boot Camp-Free Streaming for Mac

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Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:05:31 +0000

[...] (NFLX) “Watch Instantly” feature in advance of its general roll-out can now do so here, without having to rely on Bootcamp or Parallels. All that’s needed is an Intel Mac that supports the Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin on [...]

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:14:18 +0000

Microsoft’s strategy in the face of people not “standing in line” to download Silverlight, will be to do as many of these deals as possible. You can’t blame them for trying.

Who you CAN blame is Apple and Adobe for not responding forcefully.

Five years from now after another wave of PCs pre-installed with Silverlight, most average users will just be clicking on things and not worried about what is going on in the background.

Then will come the gnashing of teeth and fretting over diminishing use of Flash and other non-MS technologies on web pages.

Apple and Adobe will be giving their stuff away by then (DRM and all), hoping to regain momentum, but it will be too late.

With our ever decreasing attention spans the history we don’t know and are destined to repeat is measured in months, not years.

By: Eric Welch

Eric Welch — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:41:53 +0000

Putting Silverlight on my Mac just seems too much trouble. I can run Windows in my Mac and watch these movies just fine. I’ve been doing it for months.

Why would I want this Silverlight, another proprietary format by Microsoft to drag people into swallowing yet another DRM-laced technology designed to force people to pay Microsoft more money?

Silverlight made a big splash when they forced people to install it to watch streaming video of the Olympics. But has it been a success?

Nope, after the experiment with Silverlight. NBC went back to Flash to stream NFL games. Smart move.