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Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? said by Romney2012:I wonder if there is some financial reason for the switch. I'm sure that for the Olympics, Silverlight had the following advantages:
-publicity for MS (ie: you need to go install the thing and then the installed base of silverlight rises a bit since the Olympics are so popular)
-MS probably paid for a ton of equipment and possibly even had a hand in the networking side of things (who else would you trust to roll out a CDN for a new technology like this, especially when it's the Olypmics)?
-Since the network might have got hammered, restricting viewing to only those with Silverlight might have let them worry less about scaling things up. I'm sure the Silverlight "restriction" turned a large number of viewers away).
-Moving back to flash simply gives them more eyeballs, which they apparently really want.
As for Flash "failing", this is likely the result of a seasonal sport, continued speed increases at the consumer's end, and generally poor capacity planning. I used to have a friend at MLB.com, and he noted that each new season was always a bit of a surprise. |
| The olympics were not restricted to Silverlight at all. There was a fallback experience, so the argument doesn't hold.
If I had to guess I'd say:
1. This decision was made long before the olympics (project funding, planning and then dev just don't happen in 2-3 weeks)
2. Probably some heavy pushing from Adobe on this. Other blog posts hint at that and the disappointment Adobe had in not being used for the Olympics
Pete |
