DISQUS

"The MS bashers must be mighty worried to spend so much time bashing Silverlight."

I don't think it's MS bashers so much as web designers who can spot BS when they see it. A companies trying to hype a product contrary to the same community it's hyping it too; sounds like people are just trying to dispell myth.

Silverlight isn't a reboot for the web... maybe IE 7 was close, it could have been had they innovated and not just fixed their unsightly mess. Silverlight smells of hypeware - driven by company not community invention. Those of us who hold the title with web professionalism boast with the most knowledge of modern standards and modern development seem to yawn at this. I'm sure it'll get bullied in the OS, but it'll take far more embracing of standards for MS to reboot anything web-based.

Great advice - I have the exact same problems, and was under the exact same mindset. I'll give this a go:)

I agree with most of these comments -- I love their open discussions, and enjoyed their system when it worked. I switched to them by recommendation in January this year, and suffered through monthly drops (atleast half a business day a month we lost all sites and email), my mysql databases being 'accidentally' moved for two days and downing all my sites, my sites being down during business presentations... I loved the cutting edge, but not at the expense of odd ball drop offs, delayed support responses, and all around insecurity. This was the nail in the coffin, we swung all of our systems over during this mess; and I have no desire to go back, regardless of their honesty.