In fact, Microsoft intentionally pulled IE on other platforms, because it was clear to them that making the web experience suck on other platforms was a way to keep Windows firmly entrenched. Once Netscape was safely vanquished, Microsoft’s commitment to support IE on other platforms vanished. That was when IE was way behind Netscape and was trying to catch up. Do you really, really believe their promise? Let’s recap some ancient history here: Microsoft used to have IE for Solaris and even had a beta of IE for Linux. Take Silverlight: Microsoft pledged that they will always support Silverlight on Mac and Linux, and on browsers other than IE. Microsoft just has so much bad karma in this industry that I cannot imagine a company like us trusting them on much of anything. It is easy to dismiss all this with “Oh, the press just loves to hype everything Google, and loves to hate Microsoft,” but that cannot explain why even competitors like us are willing to embrace Google’s innovations, but stay away from perfectly good innovations from Microsoft, such as Silverlight? Google Wave, as yet, is not much more than a concept and an announcement. To be perfectly honest, Silverlight is a great piece of technology. Both Silverlight and Wave are aimed at taking the internet experience to the next level.
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The real interesting contrast to us, as independent software developers, is the way developers responded to Silverlight as opposed to the reaction yesterday to Google Wave. Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.