Adobe owns the web and they don't even know it.

I would argue that Adobe knows very well which parts of the web it owns. And yes suprisingly the killer app for flash is video (or was in 2005 ;) ).

Someone in the comments mentioned silverlight having open specs &#38; MS paying for a linux implementation. As always, there's a catch.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Mono_Moonlight_implementation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Mono_Moonlight_impl...</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_%28runtime%29#Microsoft_support" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_%28runtime%29#Microso...</a>

Microsoft should buy Adobe. Flash has the potential to be the next de facto dominant OS.

Adobe, and specifically Flash, truly sucks.