Guys just my 2 cents... This is a very big issue that Scott has ignited, and he was right to bring it out into the light.
I'm in disagreement with Scott on a lot of what he has to say regarding Silverlight and its' future. I personally believe that it has a very long and bright future ahead of itself, and the same goes for WPF and its closely related relative WPF Surface (http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/microsoft-principal-researcher-bill-buxton-surface-will-be-in-h/). BUT I agree with Scott on HTML5. MS are going to push this very hard, from a tooling to a community and from a product perspective. Where I work, Cynergy, we have 3 core businesses now 1 - Flash/Flex 2- Silverlight/WPF/Surface/WP7 3 - Others (iOS/Android/ChromeOS/HTML5) What's happened in the last 3 months is we have really started seeing HTML5 split itself into it's own group, and is honestly turning into a competitor for RIA mindshare. I say keep speaking your mind Scott, in my neck of the world what you've said hasn't distracted clients from Silverlight at all. Sooner or later we're all going to have to sell the Silverlight story over the HTML5 story to clients and our bosses.. You may find out one day that you'll be bookmarking/refering to scott's post during these meetings :) Jose Fajardo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2010 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ozsilverlight Digest, Vol 13, Issue 9 Send ozsilverlight mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ozsilverlight digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Uninteresting article re: WPF/Silverlight/HTML5 on riagenic (Scott Barnes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:14:03 +1000 From: Scott Barnes <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Uninteresting article re: WPF/Silverlight/HTML5 on riagenic To: ozSilverlight <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm long past worried about employment prospects in Microsoft or this industry :) I did what and whilst some display hatred for it, others inside Microsoft have been sending me positive emails stating in a nutshell it was about time someone spoke out. Make no mistake, there are a lot of people internally smiling at this whole thing Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 September 2010 21:36, Corneliu Tusnea > <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Sorry to tell you but I'm so sick of Scott's overly-opinionated attitude. >> He has(had) access to a fair bit of internal knowledge inside >> Microsoft that he saw through his own eyes and now he got out and >> he's spitting everywhere around him having no clue about the (moral) >> damage he does?to people he used to work with ... and maybe even his >> friends (though I doubt he had too many). > > [ ... ] > >> >> The article (just like his daily tweets that people hand on to like >> God's >> words) is yet another massive?frustration throw up and "I know everything" >> attitude. Some comments are very good at exposing this. >> >> My 2 cents, (very personal opinion) > > And it is an opinion that is shared by everyone else with half a clue > who has had the misfortune of trying to extract information from any > of Scott's abstruse and polemic e-mails. He has the unique skill of > being able to write > 2500 words on a particular topic while leaving you less enlightened > (and with a migraine) by the time you get to the end of it. > One outcome I am certain of from this is that Scott might be waiting > for a while to receive another invite to "a week in Microsoft HQ etc". > He might as well milk it for all it is worth in terms of collecting an > essentially useless entourage of fanbois. It is not going to do much > for his employment prospects. > -- > David Connors?| [email protected] |?www.codify.com Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 > 417 > 189 363 > V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact > > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight End of ozsilverlight Digest, Vol 13, Issue 9 ******************************************** Note: The information contained in this message and any attachment to it is privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. 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