Most people can remember a time in their childhood when one kid out of a group would disagree with how the others were playing and so they'd stomp their feet, yell NO and take the ball and go stand in the corner or just shoot free throws on one end. Or maybe they'd take their ball and go home. Maybe it wasn't basketball, but some other sport or game. "Doesn't play well with others" would be the phrase I suppose. Well that is how Microsoft is with the internet. I wanted to take a look at the latest training certifications on Microsoft's website at microsoft.com/learning and what do I encounter:
A message informing me that I have no choice but to install silverlight. There's no "html version" or anything like that. Microsoft forces you to use their proprietary plugin. <sigh> This is ActiveX all over again. You're required to use their latest proprietary crappy software, when you hadn't entirely recovered from their previous proprietary crappy software.
Think about the Java Applet. It was a plugin actually done right. It was on most platforms and for most browsers and everyone was happy. Then Microsoft tried to break Java Applets by impregnating them with Microsoft proprietary crap. Sun rightfully b*$#-slapped them back in their place and so Microsoft took their ball and went home. They stopped including java support in their browsers.
Anywho, I wasn't planning on posting today, but this particularly irked me.