Rich Clients in IE 8 or IE 7 SP1

Consider a release of IE that natively understands Silverlight and Adobe
Flash with built-in support to auto-update the Adobe Flash module. The Adobe
Flash support addresses anti-trust and the built-in Silverlight 2 support
allows for broader support for the rich web.

The Mozilla Foundation can follow suit with similar native support for
Silverlight and Adobe Flash. This will provide the broad coverage needed for
adoption on other platforms.

As corporate environments deploy either browser (IE 8, IE 7 SP1, or Moz),
devs can be assured that their innovative UI will have fewer hurdles as less
tech savvy users attempt to first run an app using these technologies.
Plug-ins/Players are straightforward to setup at home when you are watching
YouTube or the Olympics.

It is another matter when you are on an office computer with Vista UAC, no
admin privs, or otherwise hindered by browser security settings, etc. Having
the RIA technology built-into the browser upon install seems the most
straightforward means to have a high functioning baseline.

You can deploy Silverlight through WinUpdate but WSUS policy could block
this as well. Incorporating the technology into the browser would seem to
mitigate more issues in advancing us towards the future.

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Hi Michael,

I think there may be a one word show-stopper for this. Licensing

"It is another matter when you are on an office computer with Vista UAC, no
> admin privs, or otherwise hindered by browser security settings, etc.
> Having
> the RIA technology built-into the browser upon install seems the most
> straightforward means to have a high functioning baseline."

We are at the mercy of the network administrators and budget constraints. My
last gig(20k+ employees) was WinXP SP2 with 500Mb, Power User account and
IE6, no IIS, and we are supposed to develop for Vista on that?

Regards.

"Michael Gautier" <Michael > wrote in
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> Consider a release of IE that natively understands Silverlight and Adobe
> Flash with built-in support to auto-update the Adobe Flash module. The
> Adobe
> Flash support addresses anti-trust and the built-in Silverlight 2 support
> allows for broader support for the rich web.
>
> The Mozilla Foundation can follow suit with similar native support for
> Silverlight and Adobe Flash. This will provide the broad coverage needed
> for
> adoption on other platforms.
>
> As corporate environments deploy either browser (IE 8, IE 7 SP1, or Moz),
> devs can be assured that their innovative UI will have fewer hurdles as
> less
> tech savvy users attempt to first run an app using these technologies.
> Plug-ins/Players are straightforward to setup at home when you are
> watching
> YouTube or the Olympics.
>
> It is another matter when you are on an office computer with Vista UAC, no
> admin privs, or otherwise hindered by browser security settings, etc.
> Having
> the RIA technology built-into the browser upon install seems the most
> straightforward means to have a high functioning baseline.
>
> You can deploy Silverlight through WinUpdate but WSUS policy could block
> this as well. Incorporating the technology into the browser would seem to
> mitigate more issues in advancing us towards the future.
>
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I think it would be nice to have those technologies incorporated into the
browser however is it worth the effort with the move towards cloud computing?

"Michael Gautier" wrote:

> Consider a release of IE that natively understands Silverlight and Adobe
> Flash with built-in support to auto-update the Adobe Flash module. The Adobe
> Flash support addresses anti-trust and the built-in Silverlight 2 support
> allows for broader support for the rich web.
>
> The Mozilla Foundation can follow suit with similar native support for
> Silverlight and Adobe Flash. This will provide the broad coverage needed for
> adoption on other platforms.
>
> As corporate environments deploy either browser (IE 8, IE 7 SP1, or Moz),
> devs can be assured that their innovative UI will have fewer hurdles as less
> tech savvy users attempt to first run an app using these technologies.
> Plug-ins/Players are straightforward to setup at home when you are watching
> YouTube or the Olympics.
>
> It is another matter when you are on an office computer with Vista UAC, no
> admin privs, or otherwise hindered by browser security settings, etc. Having
> the RIA technology built-into the browser upon install seems the most
> straightforward means to have a high functioning baseline.
>
> You can deploy Silverlight through WinUpdate but WSUS policy could block
> this as well. Incorporating the technology into the browser would seem to
> mitigate more issues in advancing us towards the future.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
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