NBC abandoned Microsoft Silverlight, re-activate Flash

September 7 - during the Beijing Olympics, NBC used Microsoft's Silverlight video technology, but in a recent Sunday Night Football program, NBC has once again enabled Adobe's Flash technology.

In Beijing during the Olympics, NBC and Microsoft, using Microsoft's Silverlight video technology to provide Internet video services. But Adobe's Flash and video technology compared with, Silverlight user base is relatively weak.

According to Adobe said, 98 percent of Internet users have installed the Flash player, almost all Web video using a standard format. According to Microsoft's figures show that during the Beijing Olympic Games, visit the NBCOlympics.com Web site has 40 million users did not install Silverlight.

Some analysts have pointed out that for Microsoft, NBC's Olympic tournament Webcast provided a chance to promote Silverlight, but NBC, as Silverlight installed less, affect the number of visits, is an attempt to defeat the technology.

Microsoft Silverlight video technology known as "Flash killer", as early as the end of 2003 there was news that Microsoft in the development of Silverlight, until 2005 before Microsoft confirmed the news. Last September, Microsoft officially launched Silverlight 1.0 version.