As per my comment on the blog - the concept you're looking at was constructed around the Windows 7 timelines from memory. It was proposed at the time to being a 3rd parallel framework to WPF & Silverlight as it was used within some internal projects for the Windows teams themselves. It's probably a good point to make that this was conjured in separate streams to the DevDiv teams because of little or no love for WPF/Silverlight (More to come on that saga post Sept me thinks).
As for .NET being dead? (pft). One can declare it dead all they like but try convincing millions of .NET developers that the way forward is an alternative like HTML/JS/C++ over .NET and i'll be utterly surprised at the level of commitment that would take to make happen. At the end of the day technical engineering is one thing but if it lacks marketing & evangelism momentum that's when you end up with situations like WinForms is in today. Still widely being used, but no real future other then a timer counting down to the VB6 moment(s) we have before us... "Could you now please move on..." --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:39 PM, David Burela <[email protected]>wrote: > The Windows 8 Milestone 3 was leaked out of Redmond recently. > A few people have been poking around in the .dlls and discovered some > interesting nuggets of information. > > I have tried to pull together into a single post > http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/premature-cries-of-silverlight-wpf-skill-loss-windows-8-supports-all-programming-models > > But to summarise, it seems that Windows 8 will have a new programming model > (Direct UI & Jupiter) which is *based on a hybrid of Silverlight & WPF*. > The new UI can be created and invoked through your language of choice e.g. > C++, C#/XAML, HTML + Javascript. There are even talks that you can use the > Direct UI Xaml and Javascript together, similar to how Silverlight 1 acted > in the browser. > > -David Burela >
