{"id":4591,"date":"2008-02-28T13:52:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-worldwide-telescope-site-powered-by-adobe-flash-not-silverlight\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:34:05","slug":"microsoft-worldwide-telescope-site-powered-by-adobe-flash-not-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-worldwide-telescope-site-powered-by-adobe-flash-not-silverlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft WorldWide Telescope site powered by&#8230; Adobe Flash (not Silverlight)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s WorldWide Telescope (you know, the one that <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2008\/02\/27\/what-made-me-cry-microsofts-world-wide-telescope\/\">brought tears to Scoble&#8217;s eyes<\/a>) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/wwtelescope.com\/\">semi-unveiled today<\/a> 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 &#8216;really impressed&#8217; isn&#8217;t really enough to convince me).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wwtelescope.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/02\/flash-not-silverlight-1.png\" alt=\"Flash not Silverlight\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I did like was the website for the product itself. Has Microsoft given up on <a href=\"http:\/\/silverlight.net\/\">Silverlight<\/a>? Did the design team prefer to work with Flash because it&#8217;s so much more popular (and easier to use)? Don&#8217;t Microsoft have policies on using in-house software as opposed to competing products? It&#8217;s a mystery&#8230;. Oh and WWTelescope doesn&#8217;t use Silverlight either. Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s WorldWide Telescope (you know, the one that brought tears to Scoble&#8217;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 &#8216;really impressed&#8217; isn&#8217;t really enough to convince &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-worldwide-telescope-site-powered-by-adobe-flash-not-silverlight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft WorldWide Telescope site powered by&#8230; Adobe Flash (not Silverlight)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336332,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/336332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}