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I'm sorry, but Silverlight developers can wait 2 months to hear info about an operating system that's more than 12 months from release.

wvenable 15y ago
The only logical stance is that they're going to kill Silverlight and don't want to say anything until they have all their ducks in a row. However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical. They may simply have not expected people would read this from their Win8 demo and nobody in the company is willing to speak up about Silverlight's roll in Win8. Either way, this is bad PR for Microsoft.
- StrawberryFrog 15y ago
  However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical It's not useful to think of it in terms of what "Microsoft is" or "Microsoft isn't". Microsoft is a very big place, and the internal power struggles are what shape it. In this case, it's Windows division under Steven Sinofsky versus Developer Tools division. DevDiv owns .Net, WinDiv is less keen on it, and they have IE9 now. Sinofsky is the one who came up with the "native html" non-sequitur at the mix11 conference. How do you start to try to get platform-specific coders to adopt a cross-platform lowest-common-denominator technology? Call it "native". If this is Kremlinology then so be it. it's the only way to make sense of MS. It's sad that their best technologies are used as ammo in internal battles.
  - teyc 15y ago
    Don't forget, WPF held up LongHorn and they had to reboot their development. By taking care of the windowing framework deep within Windows (presumably the underlying code is unmanaged) and removing the dependency on .NET, Windows division is ensuring that they will never suffer the humiliation of delays because of DevDiv.
  - StrawberryFrog 15y ago
    My appologies, the "Native HTML" marketing message was delivered at MIX by Dean Hachamovitch, head of the IE team.
- darrenkopp 15y ago
  They aren't going to kill Silverlight and Silverlight will largely remain unchanged. Remember, while this is a new feature in Windows 8, it's a small feature (live tiles on start menu thing).

wvenable 15y ago

The only logical stance is that they're going to kill Silverlight and don't want to say anything until they have all their ducks in a row. However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical. They may simply have not expected people would read this from their Win8 demo and nobody in the company is willing to speak up about Silverlight's roll in Win8. Either way, this is bad PR for Microsoft.

StrawberryFrog 15y ago
However, Microsoft isn't necessarily logical It's not useful to think of it in terms of what "Microsoft is" or "Microsoft isn't". Microsoft is a very big place, and the internal power struggles are what shape it. In this case, it's Windows division under Steven Sinofsky versus Developer Tools division. DevDiv owns .Net, WinDiv is less keen on it, and they have IE9 now. Sinofsky is the one who came up with the "native html" non-sequitur at the mix11 conference. How do you start to try to get platform-specific coders to adopt a cross-platform lowest-common-denominator technology? Call it "native". If this is Kremlinology then so be it. it's the only way to make sense of MS. It's sad that their best technologies are used as ammo in internal battles.
- teyc 15y ago
  Don't forget, WPF held up LongHorn and they had to reboot their development. By taking care of the windowing framework deep within Windows (presumably the underlying code is unmanaged) and removing the dependency on .NET, Windows division is ensuring that they will never suffer the humiliation of delays because of DevDiv.
- StrawberryFrog 15y ago
  My appologies, the "Native HTML" marketing message was delivered at MIX by Dean Hachamovitch, head of the IE team.
darrenkopp 15y ago
They aren't going to kill Silverlight and Silverlight will largely remain unchanged. Remember, while this is a new feature in Windows 8, it's a small feature (live tiles on start menu thing).