Great post on CNET.com featuring comments by Microsoft’s platform evangelist Walid Abu-Hadba., who boldly states that he doesn’t “believe they have the assets or the organizational structure” to really support a general web platform, apparently referring to Adobe Flash, Flex, and Air efforts.
The article also mentions:
“For his part, Abu-Hadba said he doesn’t wonder if Silverlight [...]

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