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Comment from pamela lomas on 2009-09-18

2009-09-18T13:44:41Z

my computer has silverlite and .net do i need both its just a home computer email-games web surfing

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Comment from compmail54 on 2009-05-10

2009-05-11T03:01:39Z

this article wa very informative and helped me a lot in deciding what to do with it, and I liked the reply by T.july 16, 2008 re update security centre. Thanks for that. Like everything else microsoft is a good product but it has become so big wit so many changing products its not able to be managed properly anymore and what are minor details to them but big to the end user gets lots in the system, thus inexperienced people like myself are getting updates and don't know what to do with them or how to fix them without research. This forum site by microsft is one of the best and thanks for that too. Like me with 'always learning' microsoft is no doubt 'always trying to improve' but is getting lost in its massiveness as well. Microsoft is not alone in that regard but they seem to be doing a good job in providing free support. thanks

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Comment from F.G. on 2009-04-02

2009-04-02T20:04:03Z

M.S. Silverlight it is not just annoying, it breaks some basic windows functions and they never fixed it properly.
I had to remove it from all my systems.

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Comment from tony d on 2009-03-28

2009-03-28T22:41:10Z

Reading the agreement silverlight states it tracks and reports websites you visit. does it report every site or just the silverlight encoded sites?

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Comment from Larry on 2008-12-08

2008-12-08T17:41:59Z

Unless my computer will stop working if I do not install Silverlight, then MS can go to the "hot spot". As far as I am concerned, most of their "updates" are just another form of "phone home" spyware. I do NOT trust MS as far as I "can throw them" because they do NOT trust loyal PAYING customers and insist on you "passing" a security check every time you want to update. This and other actions by MS are just going to drive people to other OS's.

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Comment from Ken Crook on 2008-07-19

2008-07-20T04:19:29Z

Adobe's Flash is annoying with things moving all around the place, many in ads. I use FlashSwitch from FlashSwitch.com to stop Flash junk. It allows turning on Flash by clicking on the icon in the tool tray when you need to use Flash for something.
Is there a similar program to turn off Silverlight? If not, I hope someone creates one fast.

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Comment from Gigi Duru on 2008-07-18

2008-07-18T16:29:31Z

Actually the vast majority of Linux distributions can run from a cd. It's called Live-CD.
BTW i installed Silverlight on my test pc and it broke my Opera browser when i tried to visit the Microsoft Downloads site. It was a pain to remove so i say: Stay away from it, it's not worth it now.

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Comment from richard myers on 2008-07-17

2008-07-17T19:53:41Z

don't need it .i'm going to linux as second os.
there's even one that works a cd.

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Comment from jyothish kumar on 2008-07-17

2008-07-17T17:13:34Z

thank you so much for the article.the name sounded inspirational and i wanted to download and install without knowing what it was.from your article i definitely want to wait and watch.i dont know why everybody is blaiming microsoft for one thing or the other .please remember that the company began from strach .

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Comment from T. on 2008-07-16

2008-07-16T17:36:30Z

You don't HAVE to accept the updates. Under Control Panel, go to Security Center, then Windows Updates. One of your choices is "Notify me but don't automatically download and install them." When a window pops up in your system tray saying there are updates available you can click on that box and review what updates are there. Deselect the ones you don't want. This morning it wanted to download the Windows XP SP3 to the tune of 316MB. I deselected because I've already downloaded and installed this myself. I also don't let it download anything to do with Outlook or Outlook Express because I don't have either program on my computer. Hope this helps

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Comment from Mick Rogers on 2008-07-15

2008-07-16T04:19:43Z

I tend to agree with Des on this Leo....My son swears by Microsoft (I don't) and never will I hate authority
I too use Firefox whenever I can.
What I did find disconcerting was the statement by Des that a lot of updates are unnecessary.
Worse still they cannot be uninstalled
Mick Rogers

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Comment from Des Buckley on 2008-07-15

2008-07-15T22:36:09Z

So Leo, you gave in and installed Silverlight. But you've said previously that you use Firefox. A pointless installation??
By the way, there are other M'soft updates, even so-called 'critical' updates, that are completely unnecessary. But it's impossible to know this until they've been installed - and cannot be uninstalled.

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Comment from Carl R. Goodwin on 2008-07-15

2008-07-15T16:40:04Z

A lot of Microsoft's own sites will NOT work unless you install Silverlight.

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Comment from Chris on 2008-07-15

2008-07-15T07:18:14Z

Typical Microsoft, wanting to control everything, can't possibly use something that was created by someone else (ODF/OOXML, Flash/Silverlight). This company disgusts me.

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Comment from peter on 2008-07-14

2008-07-14T19:01:16Z

So we can define "Silverlight" as a programming model for developing and distributing rich Internet applications (RIA) that use graphics, animations or video within the .NET framework.

I think this technology will used much more in the future , but until this time we aren't obliged to use the silverlight tool.

important article leo , thanks ...
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