[Am I dreaming?] Microsoft Silverlight

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  1. m00nbl00d

    m00nbl00d Registered Member

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    OK... I truly never paid enough attention, but moments ago in the add/remove programs, I noticed that Microsoft Silverlight installation size is 160 MB?

    Is this for real? o_O :eek: :eek: :argh: Poor Flash Player only has 6 MB... to put it into perspective...

    WTH?
     
    m00nbl00d, Mar 15, 2012
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  2. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Registered Member

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    99% of that is DRM.
     
    Hungry Man, Mar 15, 2012
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    m00nbl00d Registered Member

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    I actually didn't think about that. But... that's one massive jungle for DRM... :argh:
     
    m00nbl00d, Mar 16, 2012
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  4. Hungry Man

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    I mean, only joking of course, but Silverlight is a MS product designed for DRM streaming so I wouldn't be surprised if it's full of it.

    It runs like crap compared to flash for me and it bumps my CPU usage up a ton too.
     
    Hungry Man, Mar 16, 2012
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  5. pirej

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    I just checked my install apps, and Microsoft Silverlight v. 4.1.10111.0 is taking 40,46 MB
     
    pirej, Mar 16, 2012
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    My v5.0.6.1118.0 Silverlight is 50.5 Mb.
     
    twl845, Mar 16, 2012
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  7. elapsed

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    Hardware acceleration and 64bit wasn't introduced until v5. In my limited experience with v4 it ran better than flash.

    I don't have it installed on my current Win8 drive nor do I plan on installing another crappy plugin, so no idea how large it is.
     
    elapsed, Mar 16, 2012
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  8. Hungry Man

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    I've been using V5 for a while, though 32bit.

    32bit Flash as well.

    I'm not saying Silverlight is objectively bad or something but in my experience Flash outperforms it by far while delivering the same content. It's just been around longer.
     
    Hungry Man, Mar 16, 2012
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