Microsoft gives up on Silverlight
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- d_rek0
Funny, if not somewhat relevant story:
While I was in college our school was approached by MS to participate in a national competition designing cutting-edge UI using their proprietary design tools and web-interactivity software: Microsoft Silverlight and the accompanying design software (I forget the name) respectively.
It was such a huge culture shock to a campus that was probably 99% mac users that I think all of but 2 students ended up entering the competition because of the technical hurdles.
After a few weeks of intense learning to achieve what they had already learned doing flash they were ready to toss in their hat. Instead they managed the deadline for the competition and submitted. The one team won first place while the other took second in the competition. MS flew them out to seattle for the awards and lavished them with all inclusive hotel and dining, not to mention generous cash awards.
After that they never touched silverlight ever again.