> need silverlight to be able to watch GoT

No you don't.

I've watched every episode of GoT, without having Silverlight installed (Does it even run on Linux? I've no idea).

I actually do have Netflix running via Silverlight on Firefox on Linux. Winodws Silverlight is running in Wine, with Pipelight to display the Windows plugin in the Linux Firefox (actually Iceweasel) process.

Its emulators all the way down!

FYI Netflix works natively in chrome on linux, and has for a while. No need for hacky solutions like that anymore.

do you pay for them or torrent? many of us reject piracy, so it would be nice to understand this.

Silverlight is needed just to add attachments to Outlook in the browser. I don't understand why there isn't a 64-bit version for chrome on mac.

Not true. Chrome does not support NPAPI and about:plugins does not show Silverlight installed.

Sent an email to myself (at another address) just now with an attachment using Chrome from outlook.com.

Did the same on the outlook web access client for an exchange server. Silverlight not needed.

Not sure where you get your information.

edit - specify that email is between different addresses.

I don't know what to tell you. My school uses an exchange server and I can't add attachments to emails on the online portal unless I use the old lite version on Chrome whereas I can on other browsers.

...how?

How do they fuck up that badly to need silverlight for attachments?

It's likely part of their tech mandate. I suspect what advantages it may have were not a big driver in that decision.

They have a vested interest in driving silverlight adoption and use.

Had. Silverlight is no longer improved.

And yet it somehow gained huge popularity - http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...