Salesforce not interested in anti-Linux tools

As this new article suggests, companies do not trust Microsoft. The article's headline is “Salesforce Says No to Silverlight”.

Pay attention to the following new bit of information which shows us just why Salesforce is right.

Some other products lose a little oomph, after SP1 installation. My favorite: New York Times Reader. This is the software that Microsoft has touted, like forever, as the showcase native Windows Presentation Foundation application. No longer—or at least not for awhile.

We explained before why Flash not "Silverlight from a different company", despite the fact that Flash is adding DRM. Consider again this alarming reminder from Joe Wilcox (Microsoft Watch):

.Net versus the Net

While Adobe and Microsoft share similar goals, their development approaches and philosophies differ. For starters, Adobe isn't a .Net shop. AIR strongly favors existing and popular Web and Web-to-desktop development technologies, such as AJAX, Flash, Flex and HTML. Microsoft leverages .Net Framework, Silverlight, Windows Media Video, Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML. While Microsoft's development toolset also supports AJAX, HTML and even Flash, the greater emphasis is the company's own technologies.

Avoid, avoid and avoid Silverlight by all means possible. If people complain loudly enough about the use of Silverlight, it won't grow (especially not outside Microsoft's 'tutf' of the World Wide Web, assuming it leaves Yahoo alone). ⬆