RE: Not with a bang, but with a whimper

Something to keep in mind about Silverlight is the support lifecycle:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean45

In particular:
"Microsoft will provide 12 months of notice prior to the end of support for
Silverlight."

This is a deal breaker for us. So it will be WPF rich client + html for
reach.

Regards,
Jeroen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn A. Van
> Ness
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 6:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Not with a bang, but with a whimper
> 
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> I am also extremely pessimistic about HTML for building _apps_.
> (Indeed, this is why I quit my job at MS a couple months ago. :-)
> 
> Long live XAML and C#..!
> 
> -S
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> 
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Shawn Wildermuth
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 	I can't understand your reticence about Silverlight. For Apps (see
> my post link below) I think it will continue to be a better dev
> experience than jQuery + HTMLX.  Of course, someone could actually build
> good HTML tools, but I haven't seen this happen in the last 15 years, so
> I am not holding my breath. At the end of the day I still think (as I've
> been saying for 4 years now) that Silverlight is about Apps, HTML is
> about sites.
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> 
> 	http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-
> PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate <http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-
> PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate>
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> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	Shawn Wildermuth
> 
> 	http://wildermuth.com <http://wildermuth.com/>
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> 	Note: This was typed on a big ole laptop so any misspellings and
> punctuations are completely my fault.not my phone's.
> 
> 
> 
> 	From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike
> 	Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 2:17 PM
> 	To: [email protected]
> 	Subject: [OT] Not with a bang, but with a whimper
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> 	Lastly, there has been massive growth in the breadth and diversity
> of devices made by a wide variety of vendors providing both open and
> closed systems.  When we started Silverlight, the number of
> unique/different Internet-connected devices in the world was relatively
> small, and our goal was to provide the most consistent, richest
> experience across those devices.  But the world has changed.  As a
> result, getting a single runtime implementation installed on every
> potential device is practically impossible.  We think HTML will provide
> the broadest, cross-platform reach across all these devices.  At
> Microsoft, we're committed to building the world's best implementation
> of HTML 5 for devices running Windows, and at the PDC, we showed the
> great progress we're making on this with IE 9.
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> 	http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/
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> 
> 	This really only makes it worse.  Because WP7 will probably be
> strong in the enterprise, so we'll probably still end up having to use
> it.
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> 
> 	Mike
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