Yahoo! builds Web Messenger on Flex
Yahoo! has released a beta version of their web messenger. Mike Potter of Adobe gets in a shot at Silverlight over Yahoo!’s choice of Flex over WPF/Silverlight:
Of course, the application release comes hot on the heels of Michael Arrington saying that Silverlight from Microsoft was going to make “Flash/ Flex look like an absolute toy”. Apparently that wasn’t too accurate, because the Yahoo Messenger team chose Flex for the web UI, despite the fact that they have already been working on a WPF version of Messenger for Vista.
That WPF version may see the light of day again if Microsoft buys Yahoo!.
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It wasn’t meant as a shot to Silverlight, as much as a shot to Mike Arrington.
MS buying Yahoo would make things very interesting indeed.
Mike
Comment by Mike Potter — May 4, 2007 @ 1:22 pm