Microhoo and Silverlight Penetration
One of the knocks I have heard against Silverlight has been around how long will it take Microsoft to obtain the same penetration as the Flash Player and if not how long, how will they do it?
If Microsoft is able to acquire Yahoo!, it certainly puts them in a much better position to quickly drive adoption of the Silverlight plugin. Based on Alexa traffic ranking, if Microhoo becomes reality, Microsoft will own 3 of the top 5 web properties on the internet. Yahoo is ranked one with a reach of 28% of all global Internet users. Live.com is ranked number four with a reach of 25% and MSN.com is ranked number five with a reach of 17%. Do the math and you get 70% of all global Internet users visiting a Microsoft property every day!
Now of course, MS would have to integrate some Silverlight apps into the popular Yahoo properties, but really that shouldn’t be all too hard.
are you sure math is used that way ;
do you think there is no overlap in Yahoo and Live.com users or better Live and MSN
Silverlight will get it’s place but buying Yahoo is not about Siverlight it’s about Search engines people needs every day
of crouse,MS get yahoo is about serch engines,and at the same time,some Flash Player will be instead of silverlight. my blog:www.mdong.org thanks
Your math as mentioned above, is WAYYYY off. How much overlap is there? most of that supposed 70% is overlap I imagine. Coverage even with Yahoo would probably put that reach at 50%, at most. Also, Google and Adobe are, and have been for a while, watching Microsoft like hawks waiting to scream “Sherman!”.