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"Political shifts inside Microsoft could leave it dead and unsupported like Silverlight tomorrow" Assumption or knowledge? How do you know this?
by jorgeleo 5y ago
"Political shifts inside Microsoft could leave it dead and unsupported like Silverlight tomorrow"
Assumption or knowledge?
How do you know this?
- thrower123 5y agoI've seen the cycle too many times over the past decade or so. It's really bad with the various desktop UI frameworks, but it happens with most everything they put out. If something doesn't get immediate traction, and doesn't have strong champions inside of Microsoft, things all too often wither on the vine and go by the board. Big bang initial rollout coinciding with Build, showing off some fancy capabilities that never quite actually are realized in the version released to general availability.
- pjmlp 5y agoEven when they have strong champions, if they get distracted, the opposition is quite quick to move in.
- pjmlp 5y agoExperience, many of us have been on the PC platform since the MS-DOS, and have seen how Microsoft politics play out, killing cool technologies because politics. Hence the famous xckd comic.