“Silverlight was now primarily the development platform for Windows Phone 7, but more cross-platform efforts would rely on the more universal standard,” Electronista reports. “Muglia stressed to ZDNet that Silverlight would still run on Macs and (indirectly) Linux systems, but HTML5 was the only guarantee of support for the iPhone and Pad. ‘HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including [the] iOS platform,’ he said.”
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We still love Silverlight!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
Siverlight means 0 to their bottom line, just let it go. It’s fun to watch MS chase every new development when it evaporates just as the think they’ve caught up. I wish they’d try something original so we could watch the train wreck. That would be hilarious
Siverlight means 0 to their bottom line, just let it go. It’s fun to watch MS chase every new development when it evaporates just as the think they’ve caught up. I wish they’d try something original so we could watch the train wreck. That would be hilarious
Silverlight is still used in a lot of line of business apps.
Html5 is great for the open web but there’s a whole world of business that exists as well. HTML 5 won’t even be fully ratified until 2022.
People only think online video when they think flash. Html5 will replace this.
Allowing people to use the .net franework for apps that have a high code reuse: wpf, web, Mac, Linux appeals to lots of people who make decisions.
Silverlight is an important part of ms future strategy.
It isn’t really like flash or html5 and can coexist peacefully.
Silverlight is still used in a lot of line of business apps.
Html5 is great for the open web but there’s a whole world of business that exists as well. HTML 5 won’t even be fully ratified until 2022.
People only think online video when they think flash. Html5 will replace this.
Allowing people to use the .net franework for apps that have a high code reuse: wpf, web, Mac, Linux appeals to lots of people who make decisions.
Silverlight is an important part of ms future strategy.
It isn’t really like flash or html5 and can coexist peacefully.
@ ApplePi: “Silverlight is still used in a lot of line of business apps.”
Substitute “Silverlight” with “Internet Explorer 6.”
Locking your business into a proprietary technology has bit many businesses in the ass, hard, because they can’t move away from IE6 without breaking all those internal business applications or paying through the nose to change them to different technology.
Any business that does or did the same thing with Silverlight, which is on nowhere near as many computers (percentage-wise) as IE6 a decade ago, deserves whatever they get down the road.
@ ApplePi: “Silverlight is still used in a lot of line of business apps.”
Substitute “Silverlight” with “Internet Explorer 6.”
Locking your business into a proprietary technology has bit many businesses in the ass, hard, because they can’t move away from IE6 without breaking all those internal business applications or paying through the nose to change them to different technology.
Any business that does or did the same thing with Silverlight, which is on nowhere near as many computers (percentage-wise) as IE6 a decade ago, deserves whatever they get down the road.
Remember the rumor of MS talking to adobe about an acquisition? And now they pull the plug on Silverlight out of the blue?
Get ready to hate MS even more.
Remember the rumor of MS talking to adobe about an acquisition? And now they pull the plug on Silverlight out of the blue?
Get ready to hate MS even more.
netflix uses silverlight which is great for mac users, so becareful what you wish for. blockbuster doesnt use silverlight and they shut out mac users
netflix uses silverlight which is great for mac users, so becareful what you wish for. blockbuster doesnt use silverlight and they shut out mac users
@twilightmoon:
I didn’t make a screenshot of the ad, but around 75% of the advertising I see on websites like macdailynews, macrumors, heise.de etc. are from Microsoft: ads for phone 7, ads for kinect, right now an ad where you can win 1000 xbox + kinects with coke, they even make advertising for IE8 (on Mac? must be because Firefox is now the #1 browser in countries like Germany and France, Paris here).
@twilightmoon:
I didn’t make a screenshot of the ad, but around 75% of the advertising I see on websites like macdailynews, macrumors, heise.de etc. are from Microsoft: ads for phone 7, ads for kinect, right now an ad where you can win 1000 xbox + kinects with coke, they even make advertising for IE8 (on Mac? must be because Firefox is now the #1 browser in countries like Germany and France, Paris here).
My organization used SilverLight for its revamped main web page. It takes far too long to load and, therefore, is no longer my browser home page. Now that is progress…not.
As the saying goes with respect to bad and worse options – out of the Flash and into the SilverLight.
My organization used SilverLight for its revamped main web page. It takes far too long to load and, therefore, is no longer my browser home page. Now that is progress…not.
As the saying goes with respect to bad and worse options – out of the Flash and into the SilverLight.
This was all reported two days ago link here …
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834
As John Gruber summarized re: Flash … “It’s over.”
This was all reported two days ago link here …
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834
As John Gruber summarized re: Flash … “It’s over.”
Microsoft is not so dumb after-all (at least in this case). HTML 5 is the future IMHO!
Microsoft is not so dumb after-all (at least in this case). HTML 5 is the future IMHO!
It tells a lot Bob Muglia being Microsoft server president but he is not Microsoft or the official spokes person.
Yet, I believe Microsoft has already supported HTML5 officially.
I don’t know if they will discard or continue pushing Silverlight.
It tells a lot Bob Muglia being Microsoft server president but he is not Microsoft or the official spokes person.
Yet, I believe Microsoft has already supported HTML5 officially.
I don’t know if they will discard or continue pushing Silverlight.
MDN posts yestayrday news. Asomcy.com is way ahead of you.
MDN posts yestayrday news. Asomcy.com is way ahead of you.
A word of advice: I wouldn’t stand too close to Bob for the next several days. Never can tell what might happen.
A word of advice: I wouldn’t stand too close to Bob for the next several days. Never can tell what might happen.