In September 2006, Microsoft launched MSN Soapbox, the company's answer to YouTube. The user-generated video site went public in February 2007, only to be semi-closed down for two months soon after in order to add content filtering. The service has been updated and tweaked many times over, but eventually it was merged into the larger MSN Video site. While this was happening, many who were following Silverlight's progress were wondering why Microsoft was still using Flash on its video sites, especially considering that it had offered Silverlight on some of its other pages, including the Microsoft.com homepage, The Podium ’08, MSN Extra, and the Microsoft Download Center.
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