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Couldn’t help notice this...

"Silverlight is probably one of the very few things that Google is currently afraid of. If Silverlight (or Adobe Flex which is more unlikely) succeeds and becomes a "Dominant Design" then Google will likely have a very rough downhill (or standstill) ahead."

What's your basis on this Google’s afraid of Silverlight claim? Also Isn’t Silverlight an alternative to FLASH (Not Flex)? Isn’t Flash already the "Dominant Design" with 94% market share?

The alternative for Adobe Flash is MS Expression Blend (in terms of capabilities) There are no principles such as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism in Blend. Flex provides an OOP environment for AS3.

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Hi shaby, both Adobe with Flex and Microsoft with Silverlight are trying to create RIA platforms. Microsoft mostly (also according to themselves) managed to get their hold on the world in the first PC era due to their Windows API which was their Dominant Design earlier on. If Silverlight (which accurately is a substitute for both Flex and Flash) and/or Flex/Flash (which Adobe themselves put forward as a RIA Platform and invests a lot of money into making it become) "makes it" then Google looses a lot of its current momentum which is built around the conception of the Open Web like for instance the ability to link to stuff, read (and understand) HTML etc, etc, etc. So Google would be foolish not to believe that both Silverlight and to some extend also Flash and Flex are not a disruptive technology for them. 99% of the revenue at Google comes from the ability to read links and understand where they point to combined with parsing and understanding HTML and link those two concepts to the stuff you put into their query box(es). Though with Chrome which actually have a realistic chance of reaching out to those "last 50%" of the browser users which currently "doesn't care enough about their browsers quality to find something else" all this changes. Especially taking into consideration the tested and verified qualities of Chrome like a lightning fast JS execution engine, brilliant standards conformance and so on. I consider Google Chrome to be the IT version of 9/11. At least in regards to the amount of importance and news coverage...