Ballmer: “No Silverlight On iPhones? I’m Deeply Offended.”

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– 06/03/2010Posted in: Adobe Flash, Fun Stuff

Steve Jobs must feel good that he's not the only Silicon Valley bigwig in Walt Mossberg's gun sights.

After his live interrogation of Uncle Steve on Day One of the D8 conference, the All Things Digital pundit turned his attention to Microsoft prexie Steve Ballmer.  Everything was going fine until Mossberg inquired if MS's Silverlight video-playback format ran on Android or iPhone handsets.  Ballmer's terse response:

"It certainly doesn't run on the iPhone! My guess is if it did it would be blocked! That's just my guess!"

Looks like Ballmer not only inherited Microsoft from Bill Gates, but also Gate's constant head-butting with Jobs.  But frankly, do you know ANYONE who has Silverlight installed on any of their computers?  Voluntarily, I mean…

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7 Comments

1. Reply

   MSman

   Posted June 3, 2010 at 9:53 PM

   check out http://www.riastats.com and you’ll see that more people have Silverlight installed than don’t, > 50%

2. Reply

   Edgar

   Posted June 3, 2010 at 11:22 PM

   I have Silverlight installed, and I love it.

3. Reply

   Andrew Smith

   Posted June 4, 2010 at 6:05 AM

   I have had Silverlight for sometime now, its much better than flash and the adoption rate is now around 60% of all web users…Sorry that statement just smacks of typical antii Microsoft with no justification as the product is the best plugin available….

4. Reply

   Robert G

   Posted June 4, 2010 at 6:43 AM

   Silverlight is the best RIA platform out there right now. Yes, I have it installed on all my systems.

5. Reply

   chris

   Posted June 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM

   I have Silverlight installed. And Windows Phone 7 will be able to run Silverlight apps natively, so it’s looking pretty positive for Silverlight.

6. Reply

   Joj

   Posted June 7, 2010 at 6:34 PM

   What site uses silverlite? lol

7. Reply

   Mike

   Posted December 8, 2010 at 10:12 PM

   @Joj just this little startup called Netflix.