Me versus Microsoft: Ryanair

Recently, Microsoft introduced a competitor for Flash on the web and it's called Silverlight. I'm not normally a huge Microsoft fan, but since I usually don't have to deal with their products, it's not a big problem.

Well, for some reason, Ryanair decided to take down their Flash version of their map and put up a Silverlight version. I thought, this is pretty annoying since the old map worked great, but I'll just install Silverlight. After all, it's "cross-platform". Well, it seems that to Microsoft, cross-platform means Windows and Macs and since I'm a Linux user, I can't a access the website.

Now, I know that Linux users don't make up a very sizeable portion of the internet, but why would they change a perfectly good map to the same one using a technology that clearly is not cross platform? Is Microsoft paying them? Are they getting free computers out of it?

The worst part about it is that they don't even have a link to the old version. I had to use this one:

http://www.airlineroutemaps.com/Europe/Ryanair.shtml

One more reason to avoid Microsoft.

Tim