MS criticises Adobe over security and performance. Physician, heal thyself!
Just days after Steve Jobs went public on the Apple site with his disdain for Flash, Microsoft has pitched in.
"Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security and performance," said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager for the Internet Explorer browser.
He added that Microsoft, like Apple, is backing HTML5 to do the same jobs of delivering multimedia content over the Web that Adobe's Flash is trying to 'own'.
A bit rich for Microsoft to have a pop about security and reliability. Perhaps this exec has never had an unknown error.
However, Microsoft is not quite as rigid as Apple, saying it helps Flash engineers to fix bugs that it finds in the product.
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75 pe rcent of all video on the web are Flash-based. Popular Flash-based sites such as Hulu can't run on the iPhone or iPad, according to Adobe. But sites like YouTube have worked around this by specially designing non-Flash apps for those devices.
