Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8

On 2011-06-09, Hardon claimed:

<http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/...dows-8>

<quote>
"A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after
Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's brief
video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Developers
expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills "die on
the vine" as Redmond finally embraces open standards. Microsoft, for
their part, have told developers they can't say more until September."
</quote>

Oops! There go the claims of the people who want to infect linux with
mono about how open it is.

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Hardon formulated the question :

<http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/...dows-8>

<quote>
"A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after
Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's brief
video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Developers
expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills "die on
the vine" as Redmond finally embraces open standards. Microsoft, for
their part, have told developers they can't say more until September."
</quote>

What a bunch of idiots... Just because it wasn't mentioned in a 10
minute demo they are freaking out. I am just waiting until an
official announcement of the development story before I make any
judgements. Admitedly, I will be a bit perturbed if MS decides to make
HTML5 and JavaScript the one true dev platform - because the fact is
they suck and I don't want to use them :)

That said, they are not going to dump .NET (won't comment on
silverligth). They already have it working on arm and there is still
the server side story. It maybe that they will dump wpf and
silverlight for the gui side of the story - relying on webservices in
"the cloud" for the real work - but those will most assuredly be in
.NET.

Basically, until an announcement is made these developers are acting
like a bunch of weiners.

Tom Shelton

Sinister Midget III was thinking very hard :

On 2011-06-09, Hardon claimed:

<http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/...dows-8>

<quote>
"A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after
Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's brief
video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Developers
expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills "die on
the vine" as Redmond finally embraces open standards. Microsoft, for
their part, have told developers they can't say more until September."
</quote>

Oops! There go the claims of the people who want to infect linux with
mono about how open it is.

LOL.. A bunch of idiots acting like a bunch of scarred little girls
because MS didn't mention their favorite tech in a 10 minute windows 8
demo means it's not open? And even if MS does abadon it... How does
that mean anything to mono? It's still a ecma/iso standard and they
can continue to develop it independantly if they wish.

Until MS makes the official dev story known in Sept, these people
should just do what they are going to do. The fact is - .NET WILL be
on windows 8. There is no question about that. Will wpf and
sivlerlight be a first class ui dev platform? That is a bit unclear at
this point, but there is no doubt that they will exist on windows for
the next several versions.

Tom Shelton

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:42:35 -0500, Sinister Midget III wrote:

On 2011-06-09, Hardon claimed:

<http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/...dows-8>

<quote>
"A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after
Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's
brief video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating
system. Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their
investment in skills "die on the vine" as Redmond finally embraces
open standards. Microsoft, for their part, have told developers
they can't say more until September."
</quote>

Oops! There go the claims of the people who want to infect linux
with mono about how open it is.

.net has truly become .not and where does this leave mono Miguel de
Icaza? In the Microsoft dustbin just like so many others before him.

After serious thinking Hardon wrote :

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:42:35 -0500, Sinister Midget III wrote:

On 2011-06-09, Hardon claimed:

<http://slashdot.org/story/11/06/09/...dows-8>

<quote>
"A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after
Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's
brief video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating
system. Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their
investment in skills "die on the vine" as Redmond finally embraces
open standards. Microsoft, for their part, have told developers
they can't say more until September."
</quote>

Oops! There go the claims of the people who want to infect linux
with mono about how open it is.

.net has truly become .not and where does this leave mono Miguel de
Icaza? In the Microsoft dustbin just like so many others before him.

if ms decides not to use .net - which I guarentee you is not the case -
it has no effect on mono at all. Or do you think that they can't have
original ideas of their own and they need to have an ms implementation
to copy from?

Tom Shelton