Have you Googled Microsoft's "strategy with Silverlight has shifted" yet this morning
Have you Googled "strategy with Silverlight has shifted" yet this morning. What a mess. I don't know what the outcome will be of all this noise, but I can guarantee Microsoft just cost a lot of us a ton of money and just handed us a ton of issues. Political problems with Silverlight that took a long time to resolve have just been reset with this stupidity.
Personally I am too disgusted to comment much more... I’ll just say that I cannot believe that this was handled in such a poor way. Upper management will not read anything but the headlines, and all I can say is that I can't blame them. This is exhausting.
UPDATE:
Here are a few posts in response to the mess
Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight!
PDC and Silverlight
Committed to Silverlight
All of that is great, but it will not fix the damage that was done. Projects will be cancelled, money will be flushed, and time will be wasted trying to rebuild a confidence in a product that in the eyes of most CTOs and CIOs is on shaky ground.
Personally I am too disgusted to comment much more... I’ll just say that I cannot believe that this was handled in such a poor way. Upper management will not read anything but the headlines, and all I can say is that I can't blame them. This is exhausting.
UPDATE:
Here are a few posts in response to the mess
Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight!
PDC and Silverlight
Committed to Silverlight
All of that is great, but it will not fix the damage that was done. Projects will be cancelled, money will be flushed, and time will be wasted trying to rebuild a confidence in a product that in the eyes of most CTOs and CIOs is on shaky ground.
posted by tadanderson at 5:41 AM
1 Comments:
How is this surprising? As someone who's been paid to write code for a couple decades now, it's clear we're currently suffering a Cambrian explosion of tools and platforms by which to grasp the web and turn it into a realistic foundation for growth.
The one thing to keep in mind with any technology is to be conservative in adoption and to trust standards (and not the official top-down by fiat standards, but the bottom-up grass-roots standards as implemented by the major players).
Silverlight has gained no real traction on the greater web since it has arrived over two years ago, which is an eternity on the internet.
I feel for those who hitched their wagon to Microsoft's latest "we hate the web" technology, I really do. But it's high time we included a corporation's vested interests in evaluating their proposals. Microsoft does not (yet) make any significant money on the web. I suspect it's a complete loss on their balance sheet. So why should we, as designers, ever trust that a web technology coming from them will further the greater internet's goals?
Regardless, again, you have my sympathy.
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