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Is Silverlight a good enough platform for a Web-based operating system?

I do not work with Silverlight personally. However, I still keep an eye out on it. Silverlight 3 and the upcoming 4 has many features that seems would make it a nice web-based operating platform like out-of-browser capacities, printing support, speed, deep-zoom, multi-touch, many controls and many more. I am wondering if you think it can be a good enough platform for a web OS or if am I way off.

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Can Silverlight read my hard disk? Detect my USB drive? CD ROM?

Amarghosh  2009-11-23 16:02:18
In Silverlight 4 full trust it can.
Jacob Adams  2009-11-23 21:37:06
Web Operating System apart, are you suggesting that a web app is gonna be able to access my hard disk?
Amarghosh  2009-11-24 04:02:30

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