Actually Scott, we have met. On many occasions. You might remember a little Aussie activity that your wife (and yourself) had a lot to do with on Saturdays in Redmond.
I'll leave the discussions on future versions of products to the marketing teams. I'll avoid feeding the fire and concentrate on what we, DevDiv, does best; develop great platforms. -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:56 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: Is Silverlight dead ? RE: David Kean. David, we've never meet so i'm guessing you're assuming either the worst or prefer character attacks vs answering the hard questions ;) like is WPF is Dead? given you have @microsoft.com how about we spend more energy in clarifying the remarks instead of ad hominem attacks? - that or learn to evangelize more effectively :) - as you will note, i've consistently said i'm a fan of WPF and Silverlight and THUS why the motivation behind what i have done to draw attention to the reality of the future of both WPF/Silverlight given the current internal climate. RE: Silverlight is Dead. Silverlight isn't dead. It's just got question marks above how it will affect the market and more to the point where this bus is heading so to speak. You can hear my thoughts on this in a number of podcasts floating around the place (Sparkling Client will have one up soon and one via Talkingshop Downunder) to quote myself: "..way Microsoft to date knows how is to either spend majority of its focus on convincing developers that Silverlight is the better option.." "I'm simply about highlighting the disconnect here and if the Windows 8 / IE teams of today think that Silverlight / WPF is something they can deprecate because they dislike people in DevDiv or its current model then think again, as this is one of those rare moments in time where you have a hung jury in terms of which of the two is really the best bet..." So not sure where David etc are drawing thine inspiration from in declaring i am flip flopping over my preferences for Silverlight? given its the whole heart & soul of this whole debate - that and putting focus back on WPF and asking a big question "Where's this going". RE: Motivation. Again, you can read why i was motivated to post the thoughts i have etc via my blog. The main reason was to circumvent the "David Keans" of the Microsoft internal as typically these types of personalities often will squash left field opinions for fear of throwing the brand itself into question or constructive criticism. At times these folks really need to get out of the Redmond bubble, jump on some planes, visit folks at the cubicle level and not at the TechEd like cheerleader-thons and one can soon realize fast that what the Redmond postcode thinks vs whats reality are vastly different. Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com
