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Good News: Silverlight Rules. Bad News: You're Canned!

Netflix recently moved to Silverlight as its standard Web video player -- and the ROI was immediate. Because Silverlight is so darn good, Netflix fired 50 customer help-desk techs!

I wonder if Microsoft has any software that can help U.S. banks and automakers?

Posted by Doug Barney on 12/11/2008 at 1:16 PM

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