-Kevin
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From: "Dan Phillips (CFXHosting.com)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: RE: Microsoft is developing a "Flash Killer"
> Mr. Sparkle?
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Microsoft is developing a "Flash Killer"
>
>
> Microsoft Hopes to Smother Flash with 'Sparkle'
>
> Redmond's readying a Macromedia "Flash killer" that could debut before
> Longhorn, according to sources.
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1374753,00.asp
>
> Watch out, Macromedia. Here comes Microsoft "Sparkle."
>
> <http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3104381>According to press
> reports, Sparkle is an animation toolset that will likely emerge as part
> of
> the Longhorn wave of products/technologies. Some are describing Sparkle
> as
> a Macromedia "Flash killer."
>
> Microsoft officials declined to comment on Sparkle. But here's what
> Microsoft Watch uncovered:
>
> Microsoft's graphics subsystem for Longhorn is code-named "Avalon."
> Avalon
> is designed to take the place of the USER/GDI graphics application
> programming interfaces (APIs) that are part of the current Win32
> programming model.
>
> Developers can write to Avalon using XAML, the Microsoft-authored
> eXtensible Application Markup Language. But for now, the only way to
> write
> XAML applications is to hand-code them.
>
> Sparkle is the tool that will automate XAML application development.
> Said
> one source: Sparkle will let you create XAML and .Net applications."
>
> Another source said that Microsoft used Sparkle to develop the clock
> that
> was part of the "Sidebar" that is part of the Longhorn Aero interface.
>
> --
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> Seems to me this is the second or third attempt by M$ to develop this.
>
> larry
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