Saturday, June 23, 2007

Gee, I wonder how Silverlight will work on my Mac? Oh ... never mind

I was keen to check out some of the Silverlight capabilities on my MacBook Pro. I heard that our friends in Redmond were doing all their demos on a Mac first. Apparently none of them were running the latest 10.4 release.

Here is my out of the box experience ... Doh!

What, is the installer just doing a string compare on the versions?
Since when is 10.4.10 < 10.4.8?

OK, so it's a beta, and they'll probably have a patch soon, but it's a pretty nasty out-of-the-box experience.

Oh well, back to AIR-land.

[Update] There is a workaround posted on the MS-site, but it is clunky.