My vote is to fold mscom/expression and mscom/silverlight into Silverlight.NET
Tim is touching only the tip of the iceberg, as having 4 sites all talking about the same thing is just counter-productive and it kind of makes me chuckle a bit as given the problem of XAML was to ensure both sides of the isle (developer <-> designer) collaborate. Yet the first thing Microsoft does is segregate the audiences? ☺ It retards the potential for skill pollination (teach devs to design, and devs teach design to code etc) and if anything all it really does is bolster internal political and egos within (currently 4 factions duking it out over ownership rights :D) Now the stark reality is most sites in Microsoft only follow a typical quantitative analysis for their given sites, which is essentially a popularity contest in terms of traffic. Yet, the closer i looked at the data the more I saw nobody was really doing a qualitative analysis as had they done that, they'd see about 80% of the sites are actually utter failures and are offering zero value to their consumer base ☺ "..as long as the graphs keep ascending to the upper right, it's no questions asked..." Silverlight.NET is really the only site that has value, the rest are just mediocrity being celebrated out loud. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Heuer Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:40 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: RE: RE: RE: Silverlight site. Welcome to the world of MSFT ;-0 Microsof.com/<product> are usually ‘marketing’ sites – displaying decision-maker information and case studies, etc. Silverlight.net serves as a developer community resources: forums, learning resources, samples, etc. -- *for developers* -th Tim Heuer | +1 (602) 405-4567 | Microsoft Silverlight blog: http://timheuer.com/blog/ | twitter: @timheuer<http://twitter.com/timheuer> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vishwanath Humpy Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RE: RE: Silverlight site. What is the story with http://silverlight.net/ ? . Will it disappear? On a positive note it did enlighten me to the silverlight partner program. I haven't heard about that before. It sounds good, unless you fail to ship a site within 90 days :-) On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:25 +0530 wrote > My thoughts are that this site is basically a Tyre Fire on the horizonof the web. [/bn/download.cgi/image001.jpg?login=vhumpy&session_id=6L25PK1KUKVzUz37P9CXCiGN4BUw7oLV&file_name=1268288425.S.38965.50908.f6mail-145-156.rediffmail.com.old.replied&formname=download&filetype=image/jpeg&folder=Inbox] ☺ From: [email protected][mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn >Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:47 PM >To: ozSilverlight >Subject: Re: RE: Silverlight site. oops - not a great advertisement for Silverlight's x-platformability http://twitpic.com/17uw53<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic%2Ecom%2F17uw53&isImage=0&BlockImage=0>:-( in safari On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Vishwanath Humpy <[email protected]</prism/writemail?mode=mail_to_individual&[email protected]&output=web&els=2e176912d075299f49c2b4025e4c86f6>> wrote: is it not a schoolboy(girl)error to have the home page unavailable via the menus? > >once you navigate around you can't get back to the home page directly. > > From: [email protected]</prism/writemail?mode=mail_to_individual&[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]</prism/writemail?mode=mail_to_individual&[email protected]&output=web&els=2e176912d075299f49c2b4025e4c86f6>]OnBehalf Of Scott Barnes >Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:55 AM >>To: ozSilverlight >Subject: Silverlight site. http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2Fsilverlight&isImage=0&BlockImage=0> has been updated. Thoughts? (i.e. i had nothing to do with it so unloadgood/bad) _______________________________________________ >ozsilverlight mailing list >[email protected]</prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&[email protected]&output=web&els=2e176912d075299f49c2b4025e4c86f6> >http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight<http://www.rediffmail.com/cgi-bin/red.cgi?red=http%3A%2F%2Fprdlxvm0001%2Ecodify%2Enet%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fozsilverlight> > [http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline....@middle]<http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline....@middle?>
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