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Greeeaaaaat. Yet another reason to love Silverlight. Went out to Mactopia/Microsoft to download an update and BOOM:
"Joining the beta will prompt installation of Microsoft Silverlight on your computer"

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I love small type and sneaky marketing equally. How many Users are actually going to notice that tiny little print under the big shiny button? Not that many. I really wish Microsoft would lay off the hard sale of Silverlight like that.

Come on guys... make me WANT to install Silverlight, not force me into it via any sneaky means you can come up with. What's next? Microsoft homepage require Silverlight? Or even better... just trick the gullible into thinking it does? Marketing would love that. Look at all of our wonderful Silverlight downloads because people want our product so much! Yay!

"We're Changing!" alright...

jamus,
Actually, almost all Microsoft web sites do require the Silverlight plug-in. By the way, now Silverlight is not beta anymore and, yes, you can choose to not install it either in Windows or Macs.

Microsoft just wants to make their sites user friendly and they think they can achieve it through Silverlight; if you do not want it just say no and worry about what you went to the Microsoft site in the first place.

I do not see anybody making a big fuzz when visiting the Adobe web site and forced you to install Flash and God knows what else only because their content will not otherwise be seen. Talk about "hard sale of" ( I am quoting you) the different Adobe products.

I'm just saying...

Martin