[totallymike]

Unfortunately their hands are tied on this one. The DRM is a part of their licensing agreement with their content providers. I'm sure if they could move off Silverlight for their desktop streaming platform, they would in a heartbeat.

Interestingly enough, they use FreeBSD for their servers.

[angryasian]

was there any reason other that what I'm assuming are MS incentives that they even chose silverlight over flash