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I've used Silverlight on Firefox (Vista, Windows 7) with no problems, not even having to restart the browser.

Silverlight is actually pretty good; it's a much easier experience for developers than Flash/Flex. You might hate Microsoft, but you shouldn't hate the tech.

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it's hard not to hate the tech when historically MS makes their stuff ignore standards and evolve into something for Windows only.

Adobe, while not perfect itself, has been committed to keeping Flash cross platform. This makes Flash harder to hate than Silverlight despite the high cost of developer tools

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