Yes some of the SL articles and blogs out there are inflammatory and miss the point.
However it is disturbing when one year PDC is all about Silverlight and the following year the technology becomes a footnote and now HTML5 is all the rage. It just makes MS look erratic and reactive - it's hard to feel comfortable about their vision when great technologies like Silverlight fall out of focus so fast. Why the hell does PDC have to be so single minded? Why not spread the love across HTML5, Silverlight and even WPF? Seems all MS does these days is cheerlead the next big thing while disregarding the here and now. If PDC had given a little more love (i.e. sessions) to Silverlight and put out a clear message that Silverlight still has a place on PC/browser (e.g. Enterprise LOB apps), then there wouldn't be all this fuss. - Paul Du Bois From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Neimke Sent: Monday, 1 November 2010 12:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: So, is Silverlight dead yet? It's worse than that. If anything, think about what *we've* effectively just told Microsoft: If you ever dare to try to tell us the truth, or give us information which is in the least bit honest, we will beat you up with a fu#$ing great big stick! Darren Neimke [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:24:34 +1100 Subject: Re: So, is Silverlight dead yet? To: [email protected] 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:51:38 +1000 Subject: So, is Silverlight dead yet? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ...at least for non-phones: 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://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate Paul _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
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