“Eyeblaster’s solution, based on Silverlight, will enrich the end user experience and increase advertisers’ options for rich, immersive campaigns. Since everything is about content delivery (the way big media wants you to swallow the pill ), thank God, Linux is unsupported platform. OK, has anyone noticed how grand illusionist from Redmond is ( intentionally) misusing terms like cross-platform and open format? Anyone? Nevermind! If you can make a backend that fakes OS X drawing libraries with good enough performance, then you have what you need. WPF/E is just a platform-independent rendering engine. Until then, it’ll probably be quite possible to make it work on OpenStep libraries. (Mac has the same market share, yes, but its users are in a demographic that spends a lot of money). When Linux finally gets there on the Desktop, even Microsoft will want to make software for it. Frankly, the ROI of making a Linux version is not going to be that high. You’ll see a lot of SilverLight web stores and SilverLight video services. The whole point of it is to allow people to make money on the web by selling stuff. It will be heavily tested on Windows and on the Mac. drawn away) by things like Flash and AJAX. It’s meant to be the way to get those kinds of people to take an all-Microsoft integrated solution, rather than getting “confused” (i.e. It looks to me like they’re going really solidly at the people who like Visual Studio and who will be building on WPF anyway. I have a friend who built stuff with this when working as an Intern at Microsoft. MSFT would consider Linux if things fall into place just right and it happens to work in the development schedules, but chances of that are slim, so you can’t expect it.

This is targetted mainly at Windows and OS X in IE, Firefox, and Safari.

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