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Adobe's comments on Silverlights release
The CEO of Adobe has a few words on Microsofts newest release, Silverlight, and they aren't as harsh as expected.Adobe just released a Flash-based Media Player called Adobe Media Player. It's an online and offline player that is capable of tagging, rating, and sharing videos and runs off of the new Apollo rich internet application development platform. Needless to say, Microsoft bit back by releasing a Flash competitor called Silverlight. It's a next generation, cross platform, cross browser web client runtime that allows for the playback of rich interactive applications.
Bruce Chizen, the CEO of Adobe shared a few thoughts about the Silverlight platform in an interview today in Tokyo. Chizen believes that Microsoft might not be committed to keeping its platform compatible with other operating systems beside Windows, since they have demonstrated their stand with other applications. On the other hand, Flash has been around for over 10 years, works strongly with every platform, and has become the industry standard and is used on top sites like YouTube to deliver streaming video across the web.
Check out the rest of the interview here.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
