Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads?

[runequester]

Im surprised this wasn't policy already. Corporations don't like competition

[runequester]

Flash seems to be lingering for a while. Hasn't microsoft given up on silverlight by now?

[runequester]

It'll be a while before flash goes away, but slowly, every so slowly, the idiocy of a company owning the key to a "common standard" is becoming more ingrained in culture.

[runequester]

No argument on the idiocy, but when the alternative isn't really an improvement, you have to question just how far adoption is going to go...

I imagine that's why it's taken so long. I am surprised we haven't seen the likes of google (who aren't less evil, but at least have more of a vested interest in a relatively open standard) throw weight behind it.

Ironically, I guess with the proliferation of i-stuff, that might end up doing more to end flash than anything else.

[runequester]

Im not disputing what you are saying in the slightest. People by and large just want to plop down money and stuff happens. That's kind of how we got here to begin with