It’s not exactly progressive enhancement, but it’s a pretty good start, and it allows me to get the content. Kudos!

Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior continues as strong as ever behind its facade of openness.

It’s dangerous (and naive) for us developers to develop in proprietary platforms.

Platforms, by their very nature, should be public and open. They exist to bring us together. So they should never be controlled by a single private entity.

Imagine a world where a single company would control the air we breathe… Or the language we communicate in…

If we allow a company to own a platform that we build everything on, we are 100% dependent on this company.

This situation, of course, is wonderful for such a company — they can do whatever they please, they can dictate the rules — and we — we can do nothing, we have become powerless.

In several sectors of our economy there is virtual no competition because the platforms, instead of open and standardized, are the property of a single company.

This situation must change. Because it serves only these few companies who dominate. It does NOT serve us — the users, the consumers.

If Microsoft weren’t still trying to win though the ownership and control of platforms, then they would be much more like, for example, Google. They would open source and standardize their platforms. They would work together with other rival companies to define the specs of new platforms, etc. They would build their solutions to support all the major OSes: Windows, Linux and Mac.

I know that Microsoft has, lately, started to open source and standardize a tiny bit of their technologies — still, as you and me know, they are going through this process like snails…

The truth is that Microsoft isn’t used to competing fairly. They are not used to winning through superior technology, but through “lock-in” solutions — solutions where you become dependent on them — i.e., Windows, Office.

I give you an example — thousands of companies nowadays simply cannot switch to Linux without spending millions of dollars to “free their data” and use alternatives to their current applications. Why? Because:
- These applications use proprietary formats for data;
- These applications are closed-source and run only on Windows.

Now, just remember this tiny little thing: Windows and Office are the platforms that bring Microsoft money. So, which platforms do you think Microsoft is trying to protect? So, do you have any doubt that Silverlight is part of this strategy?

IE uses plugin support for SVG as well, does that make SVG binary?

@golimpio: Have you checked out Moonlight?