Microsoft makes Adobes Flashplayer competition

With the “Silverlight” - Player wants to create Microsoft a new Plugin for video content.

Under the name “Silverlight Player” wants to bring the software company Microsoft an alternative to Adobes Flashplayer on the market. As the “Financial Time Germany” reports, the new Plugin is to be able to be loaded within 15 seconds on the computer. According to information of the sheet Microsoft wants to boom-end the fight for market shares in the market for video content non as for example in case of the Internet Browsers Explorer - across the dominance of Windows to lead. Instead developers are to be convinced by Web videos and other contents to set on the new technology.

With the propietären solution Microsoft wants to probably offer to Google Paroli. Its video portal YouTube avails itself the Flashtechnologie, in order to represent and play video contents.