Microsoft gives up on Silverlight
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- ukit
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/30…
So sad. You can see the reaction from the Silverlight developers here:
- dbloc0
Flash wins....
- ukit0
I guess Netflix is the only major site that uses Silverlight
- 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.
- monNom0
micosoft has a real knack for throwing in the towel on products...
when was their last successful release of... anything?
- ukit0
Windows
- d_rek0
I think that as a corporate giant they have their fingers in too many markets. They should really start to tighten up their core products as opposed to dabbling in something just because their is some potential market shares to be had. Strengthen the core products and then spin products and services out from there.
I see several strong markets they're currently in and think have huge growth potential. One would be the windows operating system. Another would be the entertainment industry (gaming, etc).
They could make a killing alone off of those two markets. Probably even more so if they just tightened all of their nuts and bolts for their respective products they offer in those markets.
Anyway, enough of this mumbo-blather-shit. Anyone try Kinect yet?
- Agree. Although gaming isn't profitable for them yet.ukit
- ephix0
did you read the article? they didn't give up. just sayin'
"Regardless, Silverlight will now be mainly known as the development platform for Windows Phone going forward. In other words, the way to make native apps for those devices."
- Miguex0
you know why that happened?
because people started calling it "flash killer".It never fails, everytime you read an article that says
[new brand] is the [current popular brand] killer, means the first one will eventually vanish away, and most people will never notice.It's like a curse I'm telling you...
aaaarrgggg
- d_rek0
So nobody has tried Kinect?
- georgesIII0
And people still don't believe in God.
*sigh
- ukit0
@ephix
Typical comment from Silverlight dev:
"I think that Bob Muglia has just killed Silverlight. It's done. It's all over.
This is because, as Bart Czernicki said in this thread, CIO's will read this and drop or avoid Silverlight starting back whenever this was said. They will be correct, of course, in doing so since MS no longer considers it the tool for a cross-platform run time.
I'm really disappointed to hear this news as I have personally put in a great deal of time learning Silverlight and all the rest that goes with it. The only good I can take from this is that I will never have to implement the dreadful MVVM.
Maybe I'll become an IPhone developer."
- Boz0
First of all this article is very misleading.. Microsoft didn't quit Silverlight.. they are using it for Windows Phone 7 which is undoubtably the next generation stuff.
As I mentioned everyone believes web as we know it is dead.. everything is moving towards devices and running apps on TVs, mobiles, refrigirators and bunch of other shit and connecting to APIs..
They are pushing Silverlight as application development platform that runs on their devices (Zune, Windows Phone 7, even Xbox 360)..HTML5 is just something that will be used for simpler apps and obviously the web as HTML has been used forever.
- He says in the third paragraph it will be used for WP7ukit
- Boz0
Not that I'm shocked a the article because it comes from the famous Apple butt-licker MG Siegler at Tech Crunch who is known to throw shit at other people when they show him how deluded he is with Apple.
- Boz0
And just an update that confirms that microsoft is pushing silverlight even more then before:
http://team.silverlight.net/anno…
It's funny how Apple freaks take out everything they can out of context to try to make words of their god $teve Jobs less idiotic.
- so it's a non-story.. nobody is dropping anything.. move on.Boz
- Boz0
It's also funny how not one Apple fanboy knew anything about HTML and other shit and now everyone is for HTML5.. It's very obvious cult behavior.. as soon as Steve Jobs pronounces something, they will repeat and try to follow that word to the end of the world.. no matter what.
Truly fantastic.
- ukit0
ROFL
Cmon...if Microsoft drops support for Silverlight on what is by far the largest platform (the web) and says it will only be used on mobile, how can that possibly be construed as a win? Silverlight was ALREADY the dev environment for WP7. The only news here is that they are switching to HTML5 for everything else.
What's the userbase for the web vs. Windows Phone 7?
- Boz0
They are not switching to HTML5 for everything else wth are you talking about.. Silverlight is their main software development platform.. read the link I posted..
HTML5 will be for simple stuff.. just like it should be and he's touting HTML5 because they want IE9 to become a main browser again so it's their ace in their sleeve.. it has nothing to do with HTML5 being their main platform for development.. what a bunch of garbage.
- correction: HTML5 will be for simple web app stuff.. just like it should be for the most part.Boz
- ukit0
Nonsense. Everyone who knows the tech industry reads this as hanging Silverlight out to die. You don't kill a project in one press release. It happens slowly, over the course of a few years. This is clearly the first step though, ostracizing it to the unproven niche platform of WP7.