On 10/11/2011 3:52 PM, Dan Covill wrote: > On 10/11/11 10:46, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: >> Do you see Microsoft becoming more accepting and endorsing of open >> standards? Are they playing nicer in the sandbox now? > > I don't think this has anything to do with open standards. MS is just > abandoning yet another losing effort to create/steamroller/enforce a > proprietary 'standard' of their own devising. > > This one didn't work. MS Word did.
The talk from MS sounds as though they're fully going with HTML5 and CSS3 now, and so the Silverlight endeavor seems like another thing abandoned. The stunning thing here is that Silverlight was still very new, imo. They're really reinforcing the reasons why folks should not put any faith in them when the are so quick to pull the rug out from underneath their followers. (Cue Ed's comment about people blindly following them.) -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
