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Moonlight 2.0 Preview is Out and Why You Should Care

April 1, 2013May 5, 2009 by David Shanske

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Moonlight is a Novell-sponsored Linux implementation of Microsoft Silverlight, which is Microsoft‘s equivalent of Adobe Flash. We hate the idea of websites we can’t use, and like the idea of Linux-plugins that correct this. However, there is one show-stopping app for Moonlight: Netflix.

The Netflix Watch Instantly system is not supported under Linux, mostly because it uses Silverlight. It is particularly odd, as we know it could be supported under Linux. The Roku NetFlix/Video Player is Linux-based. Silverlight itself does not have the market-share Adobe Flash does, and we are thus surprised by Netflix’s choice.

The latest version of Moonlight, 2.0 preview, supports Silverlight 2.0, which is necessary for Netflix, but does not support the DRM stack, which is necessary for Netflix to run. We have high hopes this wll come someday. Until then, we guess we are limited to Flash-based web media.

Moonlight 2.0 Preview is available as a Firefox plugin for both 32 and 64-bit Linux distributions.

Microsoft Shoots Back at Adobe Over Silverlight (technologizer.com)
Serious business behind Microsoft’s Silverlight-3 tease (theregister.co.uk)
Moonlight Shines on Obama’s Inauguration (port25.technet.com)
Obama Inauguration shines on Linux too with Moonlight (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft throws Silverlight 3 beta at Adobe (Gavin Clarke/The Register) (techmeme.com)
Microsoft lashes out at Adobe over Silverlight comments (infoworld.com)

Microsoft is in the Toilet

April 11, 2010September 28, 2008 by David Shanske

Crunchgear posted this amusing image from Russia. It reads, “Windows Vista – The Digital Future Starts Here.”

We’re not thrilled with Vista from the time we spent fiddling with it. It certainly, we admit, has some new features of us, but a lot of things are not as easy to locate in the system as they were under XP.

That aside, Microsoft is advertising on toilets. We can just picture poor Yuri, after a night of drinking vodka, stumbling to the restroom to worship the porcelain deity and…inspired by the ad he sees as he voids his stomach, buying a new computer loaded with Microsoft Windows Vista.

Convert Word 2007 Files

April 11, 2010September 28, 2008 by David Shanske

Microsoft Word (Windows) — Image via Wikipedia

We recently received a file by email from someone with the extension .docx, which is the new Word 2007 format. They redid everything, probably to make us shell out more money. We had to email our friend and ask them to save the file in a different format and send it back to us. It is easier to find ways to do it ourselves.

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