I agree. This whole Silverlight debate is a beat up over nothing.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Darren Neimke <[email protected]>wrote:

>  There's a couple of things here that I think are really, really sad.
>
> Firstly, a department within Microsoft comes out at an event, and they use
> plain English to show that they are supporting an exciting new technology.
>  Next, a couple of groups - who make money from eyeballs - come out with
> inflammatory comments about what has been said.  Finally, people like *you*
> (whomever is reading this right now) give justification to the comments made
> by those groups by going on about it.
>
> So in short,
>
>
>    1. I don't really care who Mary Foley or TechCrunch are, or what
>    qualifies them to publish stories with such an audacious and misleading
>    title as: "Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted"
>    2. Every minute and therefore money (via our eyeballs) we give to Mary
>    and TechCrunch, is a minute that is not spent working out how to get the
>    best out of these 2 technologies
>    3. Think about the people who are writing about this "debate" (debate?
>     really?) and ask yourself what their motive is for writing in the first
>    place
>
>
>
>
> Darren Neimke
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:51:38 +1000
> Subject: So, is Silverlight dead yet?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> ...at least for non-phones:
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/30/rip-silverlight-on-the-web/
>  <http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/30/rip-silverlight-on-the-web/>
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834
>  <http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/30/rip-silverlight-on-the-web/>
> http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate
>
> <http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate>Paul
>
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