Silverlight 4 is here, Does More vs. Flash

Remember that Flash has a high level of support for Mobile devices like phones, PDAs and non-Windows netbooks – which is already turning into a huge market compared to Desktops.
Microsoft will make sure Silverlight is only available to Windows systems.

Silverlight is faster at rendering to the screen. No surprise there, since most of the heavy lifting is being done by the .Net framework (hardware bitmap drawing). This would be a bit more compelling if the tweening algorithms had been the same for both.

If you need raw easing equations, there are many out there, and I have several that could be used in both environments.

Silverlight runs on the Mac OS, and Linux as well via Moonlight.

hell yea!! go Silverlight!!!!

Your title is misleading because it is untrue. Of course since you wrote it Flash 10.1 has come out as well as CS5.

Another thing, while crowing about the Apple vs Adobe debacle over the summer you leave out one very important fact. Apple does not support Silverlight on its mobile devices either and has taken as firm a stand in regards to that as Flash. Flash just made the headlines.

You can say it’s faster but at least from all the demos I’ve seen Flash is faster and smoother.

It runs on linux? A joke.. It doesn’t. There is something that is supposed to run on linux, but in fact, it doesn’t. It does nothing at all, most applications don’t work.

Silverlight applications load very slow, if at all. I don’t want to wait a minute before I can do something. Flash just works. Not only a little bit, it works brilliantly. Flash does have hardware rendering, at least, it does have hardware rendering on linux. All features you mentioned are in fact available in flash. I used them in flash 8!!
It’s just bloody microsoft advertising, and you fell for it.

No, i work sometimes with ubuntu and it works perfectly. I prefer silverlight 4 due to the fact that It’s the programming is done in C# which is more stable.