NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac Now Available...Too Bad it Requires MS Silverlight - Maczter

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NY Times Reader Beta for the Mac Now Available...Too Bad it Requires MS Silverlight
May 23, 2008 07:24 AM UTC

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Via maczter's musings:

The New York Times has released a beta of their Times Reader app for OS X, but they shot themselves in the foot with one poor decision: They chose to develop it using Microsoft's barely out of the gate Silverlight (MS' answer to Adobe's Flash).

It's really too bad to see big firms make poor decisions like this, though I guess it shouldn't surprise me.

Here's hoping someone at The Times sees the

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