Microsoft WorldWide Telescope site powered by… Adobe Flash (not Silverlight)
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pm by Tom Clarke
Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope (you know, the one that brought tears to Scoble’s eyes) has been semi-unveiled today and the TED Talk video is included on the new website for the project. Yes, it looks quite nice (though the fact that Robert Scoble and a bunch of kids are ‘really impressed’ isn’t really enough to convince me).
What I did like was the website for the product itself. Has Microsoft given up on Silverlight? Did the design team prefer to work with Flash because it’s so much more popular (and easier to use)? Don’t Microsoft have policies on using in-house software as opposed to competing products? It’s a mystery…. Oh and WWTelescope doesn’t use Silverlight either. Hmmm.
Posted at 7:05 pm on Feb 28th
Ehh! I think the Video was made with Flash, the site has no link to see Telescope actually working
Posted at 10:14 am on Feb 29th
Yeah but it’s a Microsoft project and Silverlight does HD video. I reckon they either farmed this one out to another firm or they forgot to get their in-house enforcers to check it.
Posted at 1:36 am on Mar 27th
Well the enforcers made good. Now you can have the whole WorldWide Telescope experience in a Web Browser on your Mac or PC!