for a takeover?
;-) DRE
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:48 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Microsoft is developing a "Flash Killer"
Then again it could be standard M$ FUD.
larry
At 02:31 PM 11/6/2003, you wrote:
>I was just reading some stuff related to this in InfoWorld.
>
> >From an article on Longhorn in this month's magazine:
>"For years, Microsoft has argued that browser-based apps can be replaced by
>smart, Internet-aware client applications that exploit the processing power
>of desktop computers running Windows."
>
>And quoting a product manager:
>"in this browser-centric world clients must always be connected, the server
>becomes a bottleneck, and HTML apps are clunky to build and use."
>
>Tie that in with the Avalon XML based GUI and this quote from an analyst:
>"...the possibility of letting graphic artists more directly create the
user
>interface either by entering the markup themselves or by using graphics
>tools, as opposed to programmer tools," and it sounds a lot like Flash
>Remoting with Longhorn as an OS _being_ Central. And yeah, Sparkle sounds
>like the graphics tools the analyst might be referring to.
>
>Here's another related article:
>
>Microsoft eyes Web services design tool
><http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/28/HNvisdesign_1.html?s=feature>htt
p://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/28/HNvisdesign_1.html?s=feature
>
>I wonder if the Avalon XAML will use something like embedded VB.NET to do
>what ActionScript does for Flash.
>
>-Kevin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:10 PM
>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>http://www.eweek.com/ar
ticle2/0,4149,1374753,00.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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Seems to me this is the second or third attempt by M$ to develop this.
> >
> > larry
> >
> >
> >
>
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