Adobe has indeed made it clear that Flash is available for Microsoft Windows,
Apple Mac, and Linux. Microsoft still has yet to release a version of
Silverlight for Linux. Silverlight is the dominant one here though. Although
Flash has been around longer, Microsoft advanced the technology through the
roof.
Beyond what developers imagined, Silverlight is the real deal. Using
Microsoft's vector imaging tactics are not necessarily better than Adobe vector
tactics, but Silverlight handles vector images 120% better than Flash does.
What is hard to get is how both lack the technology to obtain data from a
remote website. Flash may have the control library, but Silverlight knows the
operating system. Adobe is still stuck on XML sockets in Web 2.0 and lower,
while Microsoft is looking ahead to Web 3.0
As far as animation is concerned, Microsoft wins. Adobe is STILL stuck on
frames while Microsoft is full speed ahead. Silverlight also debugs better than
Flash. Silverlight streaming is great -- building a video site based on Flash is
not as cost effective as building a video content site using Silverlight. What a
great way for Microsoft giving back to its community. Microsoft offers cheaper
media licensing initiatives than Adobe does.

Silverlight is doing good and gaining popularity!

I must give silverlight credit but before it catches it I believe it must the potential security problems that can come with silverlight as did ACtiveX. I'm just afraid that Silverlight will follow the same path as ActiveX in the future.

If Silverlight grows on to ActiveX, I would say Silverlight isn't new technology. But then again, that is just my opinion...

Read carefully what yano said, which is why his post is highlighted in this topic. He said on the same path as ActiveX -- NOT developing off of ActiveX!

yano wrote:I must give silverlight credit but before it catches it I believe it must the potential security problems that can come with silverlight as did ACtiveX. I'm just afraid that Silverlight will follow the same path as ActiveX in the future.

Silverlight gets more credit than Flash because Silverlight has the marketing edge, called Microsoft. Silverlight, however, is not prone to security problems as much as ActiveX because the base of the security modules is below DLL level.

Flash is past...... now its time for the Future.