Comments on: Cool facts about Silverlight penetration / market share

By: nam vo

nam vo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:04:35 +0000

You guys should follow this http://www.statowl.com/silverlight.php to see how SL’s doing. Its marketshare grows 2% average every month without the help from Windows Update much.

Now it reaches to more than 52% computers worldwide, so I guess it’s not bad at all to start developing your apps using SL. Windows phone 7 will boost it to a new level soon.

By: Francois

Francois — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:27:13 +0000

Does anyone know if it is opt-in or opt-out?

By: dr.jeckhill

dr.jeckhill — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:50:12 +0000

Cmon be real, I’m a riaa developer (jboss Seam + jbpm + quartz + hibernate + eclipse-pluginbased-designer) in a >1000 employees healthcare IT company, I don’t know a single person here in Italy having this silverlight installed. We use flamingo paperivsion3d on our flex interfaces with success, silverlight may be good but we will never know becaue no one is really interested. It just came in too late.
Just like us-only fancy thingies like twitter, facebook came first and there’s no second place
Like “windows” wins forever anyway because it’s the first usable OS, just simply drop away your silverlight project and try doing something different and better, like pushing on who knows, html5? some new cool standards.

By: Ray Burns

Ray Burns — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:52:04 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding!

Why would a platform-agnostic person choose the most primitive of all tools (plain HTML and JavaScript)?

I think what Rob Toole was saying is that he doesn’t care about vendors and platforms, but rather what actually gets a high quality web site built most efficiently.

This would explain why he chose Silverlight.

By: Silverlight exceeds 50% penetration « Coding Out Loud

Silverlight exceeds 50% penetration « Coding Out Loud — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:41:49 +0000

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By: Chris Barber

Chris Barber — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:15:06 +0000

RT @ryantomlinson: Interesting facts about #Silverlight browser penetration http://bit.ly/5tROwT *I'm shocked

By: ryantomlinson

ryantomlinson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:05:24 +0000

Interesting facts about #Silverlight browser penetration http://bit.ly/5tROwT

By: John Zabroski

John Zabroski — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:35:03 +0000

@timheuer MS Croatia good marketing http://www.uxpassion.com/2009/06/cool-facts-about-silverlight-penetration-market-share/

By: ibrahim

ibrahim — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:51:03 +0000

when u install windows first windows xp animation is in flash
i think its flash 6 or 5

By: Avivo

Avivo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:34:23 +0000

Cool facts about Silverlight penetration / market share.
http://bit.ly/6wwQTn

By: UXPassion.com

UXPassion.com — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:52:39 +0000

Hi McDuck,
Thanks for your comment. Stats here have been published by an now ex-Microsoftie guy – Scott (he commented on this article so you can take a look at that as well).

As for self- or commercial interest going on here – I’m a BIG FAN of Silverlight, I use it in my daily work working with clients of all kinds and I do use this blog space to talk more about it. But first and foremost – as I’ve mentioned number of times earlier in this article and the comments – purpose of this was just to serve as cool and fun overview of the situation on the market. Quite cool to see how many people have decided to comment and share their opinion about this article. I just LOVE IT!

By: McDuck

McDuck — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:13:39 +0000

Thanks dough for some sense.

Most of the original post is classic spin, very misleading. I’m sure Mark Twain would have something to say about those “statistics”.

Seems to me that there is a degree of self-, or commercial-interest going on here (why would you spend the time to come up with these things?) and it’s a shame that none has been declared.

By: UXPassion.com

UXPassion.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:17:55 +0000

Hi and thanks for your comment – this site has just been moved to new host so we are still fixing some issues. Thanks for letting me know!

By: read me

read me — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:01:08 +0000

A little offtopic reply, Im using the new google chrome browser, but it looks like your website is not displaying correctly… Just to let you know. Thanks.

By: MS Fanboi

MS Fanboi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:04:54 +0000

Yeah, standards are lame and boring. Silverlight is compiled and rulz! No one can view source on my ass-like code. Not many sites seem to use it, but I think one day HTML and CSS and Javascript will just go away. I hate the open web because anyone can sit down and learn and use it. Silverlight requires me to have MS tools/platform to develop, which makes me feel confident in the fact i’ll be intelesensing my way into high level API heaven, never needing to understand a programming language or paradigm.

By: UXPassion.com

UXPassion.com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:56:19 +0000

I could almost bet it was part of Windows XP!

By: Tamer

Tamer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:11:46 +0000

Microsoft is not distributing Flash with Windows since Windows 98.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:50:59 +0000

Every statistic shown here is misleading in one way or another. You can’t compare install rates from six years ago to today, or number of worldwide installs to the number of Americans with cars. How does that matter at all?