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You know, that's a lot of words to ask everybody to read, with precious little pay off. I just finished reading the whole thing, and I'm going to recommend tha

You know, that's a lot of words to ask everybody to read, with precious little pay off. I just finished reading the whole thing, and I'm going to recommend that you skip it. It boils down to an egotistical hypocritical jerk uses fights over the Silverlight marketing website and strategic plan to try to illustrate problems with the Silverlight project, but fails to make any useful points other than that there was some corporate infighting. This simply isn't a good article, please don't vote it up, and I recommend you don't waste your time.

zwischenzug 15y ago
I agree entirely with this. It also seemed very poorly written and ill-considered. If I were interviewing this person for a job I'd be very put off by the tone, the solecisms, and the lack of clarity.
grammaton 15y ago
Yes. This is basically one person's personal bitching. How is this informative? Unless you're interested in the nitty-gritty details of corporate politics at Microsoft....
- rwolf 15y ago
  The nitty-gritty details of corporate politics at Microsoft is of interest to me. Given the recent barrage of positive tech articles about the upcoming Windows 8, I enjoyed a look from the inside at what looked from outside like a remarkably successful product (at least on the marketing side).
icefox 15y ago
Pretty much anywhere you go there is corporate infighting. Learning to deal with that in a constructive way and not let it get you down (too much) is important. The conclusion the author was trying to sell (I think) was that Silverlight didn't have a five year plan so that is why it failed. But it sounded like no matter how well it was doing it could have been killed simply because HTML is the new hot thing. Honestly he comes away as a guy who didn't have much influence and when he didn't get his way, got aggravated and started fights. And when the product was killed off he is trying to spin it as though he knew it was going to fail all along and wasn't listened to, but to what point I am not sure, it isn't helping him. Edit: and him openly admitting to being the leak for a major tech news lost him all sympathy from me. People who leak news that they know they shouldn't rub me the wrong way. For someone who does consulting this seems like a kiss of death for future jobs.

zwischenzug 15y ago

I agree entirely with this. It also seemed very poorly written and ill-considered. If I were interviewing this person for a job I'd be very put off by the tone, the solecisms, and the lack of clarity.

grammaton 15y ago

Yes. This is basically one person's personal bitching. How is this informative? Unless you're interested in the nitty-gritty details of corporate politics at Microsoft....

rwolf 15y ago
The nitty-gritty details of corporate politics at Microsoft is of interest to me. Given the recent barrage of positive tech articles about the upcoming Windows 8, I enjoyed a look from the inside at what looked from outside like a remarkably successful product (at least on the marketing side).

icefox 15y ago

Pretty much anywhere you go there is corporate infighting. Learning to deal with that in a constructive way and not let it get you down (too much) is important. The conclusion the author was trying to sell (I think) was that Silverlight didn't have a five year plan so that is why it failed. But it sounded like no matter how well it was doing it could have been killed simply because HTML is the new hot thing. Honestly he comes away as a guy who didn't have much influence and when he didn't get his way, got aggravated and started fights. And when the product was killed off he is trying to spin it as though he knew it was going to fail all along and wasn't listened to, but to what point I am not sure, it isn't helping him. Edit: and him openly admitting to being the leak for a major tech news lost him all sympathy from me. People who leak news that they know they shouldn't rub me the wrong way. For someone who does consulting this seems like a kiss of death for future jobs.