Myself and many others have been high frustrated in recent months to hear the large number of tech journalists who have made incorrect comparisons of AIR and Silverlight. I’ve even heard respected tech journalists confusing Flex and AIR. These are people who really should know better, and they in turn create wide spread confusion within the wider internet community.
Peter Elst has started a badge campaign to help spread the word, and Mrinal Wadhwa has created a badge that people can use on their blogs (see the top of this post). What you do makes a difference! Just incase someone ever asks you about Silverlight and AIR, here’s a great quote I read on Mrinal’s blog:
Microsoft Silverlight is a browser plugin and is sort of similar to Adobe’s Flash Player and Flex Framework taken together.
Adobe AIR is cross platform desktop runtime that allows developers to build desktop applications using web technologies, it has no real equivalent in the Microsoft world.
Spread the word!
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I wrote the following post in my site (http://www.graphicmania.net) in comment to your post:
I liked to start by Peter Elst campaign`s logo to that shows to the world that Adobe AIR is not equal to MS Silverlight. And I would like to comment on Ton Fendall`s post on his blog about the misunderstood by many journalists which drive them to compare between AIR and Silverlight.
I have seen many articles that compare between Adobe and Microsoft products without knowing what they are talking about. I reached to think they can be a paid posts or some thing, as these articles does not show that its writers are doing any research before writing it.
Microsoft guys themselves do not compare between their products and Adobe products, may be because they know that the community is smart enough to choose the best for them and their business. it is just a guessing so 
Thanks alot for your great post, it really turn the eye to these mistaken journalists.
Yours,
Rafiq
[...] Adobe AIR is not equal to MS Silverlight. And I would like to comment on Ton Fendall`s post on his blog about the misunderstood by many journalists which drive them to compare between AIR and [...]
I suggest it be AIR > Silverlight…:-)
