Microsoft may yell and scream about Silverlight all they want but in the end the success or failure of Silverlight may well be determined by developers (Ballmer knows this quite well. Remember the monkey boy dance).
MS has has been on the ropes the last several years. They have clearly taken a defensive, reactive strategy. This may be ok for the short term but it's not going to work for the long term. Someone has to be the leader. Over the long haul the market consolidates
behind a leader. Where I'm going with this is to say that SL and its supporting technologies are a knockout punch. MS needs to quit trying to accomodate the standand and BE the standard. There is a clear niche for SL and MS needs to grow it.
I am a .net developer. I write .net code for a living. I've been using MS products since I was 20, I'm now almost 45. I was an IT manager for over 20 years. Over the course of my career I've been responsible for millions of dollars of revenue for MS. As
a developer I've stuck with MS because honestly I'm too old to change. For several years I was very disapointed with the pace of development at MS. But the last few years MS seems to slowly be getting their act together. We now have LINQ, and Entity Framework
(its getting better, really), and SL. These are awesome technologies! I love them!
But I will tell you this: If I don't see some SERIOUS SL apps being introduced with Windows 8 in the next 60 to 90 days I am going to make a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to abandon every investment I have made in MS (and I have made many) and find another devlopment
platform (I have no idea what it might be). If you write .net code for a living or if you buy MS technologies for your company you need to make the same PERSONAL COMMITMENT and state it here. MS only understands the language of money. Lets speak to Balmer
in words he understands. Enough already.
samw
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Re: Re: Windows 8 apps going html5, wtf
Jun 02, 2011 05:51 AM | LINK
Microsoft may yell and scream about Silverlight all they want but in the end the success or failure of Silverlight may well be determined by developers (Ballmer knows this quite well. Remember the monkey boy dance).
MS has has been on the ropes the last several years. They have clearly taken a defensive, reactive strategy. This may be ok for the short term but it's not going to work for the long term. Someone has to be the leader. Over the long haul the market consolidates behind a leader. Where I'm going with this is to say that SL and its supporting technologies are a knockout punch. MS needs to quit trying to accomodate the standand and BE the standard. There is a clear niche for SL and MS needs to grow it.
I am a .net developer. I write .net code for a living. I've been using MS products since I was 20, I'm now almost 45. I was an IT manager for over 20 years. Over the course of my career I've been responsible for millions of dollars of revenue for MS. As a developer I've stuck with MS because honestly I'm too old to change. For several years I was very disapointed with the pace of development at MS. But the last few years MS seems to slowly be getting their act together. We now have LINQ, and Entity Framework (its getting better, really), and SL. These are awesome technologies! I love them!
But I will tell you this: If I don't see some SERIOUS SL apps being introduced with Windows 8 in the next 60 to 90 days I am going to make a PERSONAL COMMITMENT to abandon every investment I have made in MS (and I have made many) and find another devlopment platform (I have no idea what it might be). If you write .net code for a living or if you buy MS technologies for your company you need to make the same PERSONAL COMMITMENT and state it here. MS only understands the language of money. Lets speak to Balmer in words he understands. Enough already.