Re: Current thinking on Best GUI development platforms

Skot Nelson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec-1-2007, at 09:40 , [email protected] wrote:

> Silverlight is still in alpha/beta and won't be amazingly practical  
> as a solution until mid 2008.
...
> Just like Adobe's Flex, it will be completely cross-platform and  
> cross-browser compliant.


You don't actually trust that commitment do you? Unless you consider  
cross platform to mean "any version of Windows and MAYBE SUSE Linux"  
I wouldn't trust that press release at all.
(Suse == Novell == Microsoft ergo it might factor into Redmond's list.)
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