Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

[Liam Proven]

On 4 August 2014 16:20, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> No one, including my vendor can tell me what silverlight is for.


You haven't asked here.

I can tell you.

Silverlight was Microsoft's .NET-based equivalent to Adobe Flash. It's
a method for embedding interactive components in webpages, including
things like movie streaming.

Since the world already had a widely-supported plugin for such things
-- Flash -- and pretty much everyone (except incompetent so-called web
designers) hates Flash, nobody wanted an incompatible,
even-more-proprietary alternative to it.

So it bombed.



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