Things that aren’t important in Silverlight
ScottGu blogged about the latest release of SL4. Top of his list of new goodies that are in the latest release was “further enhancing media support”.
This is really starting to annoy me. The multimedia sideshow was good for wooing pointy haired bosses and brainless marketing people but it’s not really important.
The world does not need YAY (yet another youtube) and apart from training material on sites like silverlight.net, all this multimedia stuff isn’t terribly useful. Sure you can use it to drip glitter on really awful internet flash-type games, but nobody pays for those, so that’s not a market.
The RIA stuff is a thousand times more important. Not as glamorous, but it’s make or break for LOB, which is the real market, where the paying customers are. Microsoft is normally very hard-headed about this stuff. Ballmer may prance about chanting “Developers, developers, developers…” but that’s because of the mutual entrenchment of the platform and the apps that run on it. He’s really chanting “Stitch up our market, stitch up our market…”