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copied!<p>I struggled with this for a while. Ultimately, I chose to develop my site using Silverlight for the major components. I did a good bit of research, and I reached the following bottom-line conclusion:</p> <blockquote> <p>If Silverlight fails, it will <strong>not</strong> be for lack of installed base. There are simply too many levers for MS to pull (windows update, embedding it in IE8, or even paying highly trafficed sites to use it.</p> </blockquote> <p>I will add this from Alexa - microsoft.com has pretty impressive daily reach and it uses SL on the main page. I would also not be surprised at all if Outlook Web Access is moved to Silverlight - thereby turning every single office outlook user who wants to access email from home/other into a roaming SL installer.</p> <p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/windowslive-hotmail.com?site0=microsoft.com&site1=amazon.com&site2=ebay.com&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=470&c=1&u%5B%5D=microsoft.com&u%5B%5D=amazon.com&u%5B%5D=ebay.com&x=2008-09-17T14%3A24%3A46.000Z&check=www.alexa.com&signature=IUzWOf7U%2BFV0rf%2FITdkvrNV%2BfUI%3D&range=3m&size=Medium" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Alexa Link comparing microsoft.com/ebay.com/amazon.com</a></p> <p>I will add this from <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ScottGu's blog entry</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>In addition to powering the Olympics experience in the US, Silverlight was also used in France (by FranceTV), the Netherlands (by NOS), Russia (by Sportbox.ru) and Italy (by RAI). In addition to video quality, a big reason behind these broadcasters decision to use Silverlight was the TCO and streaming cost difference Silverlight provided. In the August 2008 edition of Web Designer Magazine (a Dutch publication) a NOS representative reported that they were able to serve 100,000 concurrent users using Silverlight and 40 Windows Media Servers, whereas it would have required 270 servers if they had used Flash Media Servers.</p> <p>Over the last month we've seen several major new deployments of Silverlight for media scenarios. For example: CBS College Sports is now using Silverlight to stream NCAA events from its 170 partner colleges and university. Blockbuster is replacing Flash with Silverlight for its MovieLink application. And Netflix two weeks ago rolled out its new Instant Watch service using Silverlight.</p> </blockquote>

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