Hi All :) Let me clarify my motivation as i have with Scott Guthrie and the rest of the teams. I sent the post/tweets into the wild based off what others within the company have told me time and time again. Majority of what I've stated isn't actually my opinion of how things should be or why WPF is dead, all i can say is it's been left dormant and the Windows 8 team have higher grander plans around the future of Silverlight and HTML5 that don't bode well for Silverlight or WPF and it has nothing to do really with technical merit or customer needs. Its a hungry division and they aren't afraid to go aggressive when it counts given its marketshare / share price needs.
The reason I dumped this publicly isn't to grind an axe or two, like many of you on this list in the past who have come to either myself or others within Microsoft with feedback or "can't you guys..." style remarks, the reality is it falls on deaf ears. We are left with a simple choice, do you keep lobbying internally to folks who have consistently shown absolute zero interest unless it fits in with their fiscal metrics or do you simply say enough, try another tactic. Whether you agree with this or not, i choose to shake things up differently and as someone who's spent the last few years listening, interacting and trying my absolute best to put allot of you're ideas, needs and help requests into the hands of change agents, in the end given the top-down bureaucracy within Microsoft it's just simply a fools errand. I now have Microsoft's full attention along with many in the industry. Whilst some of you will launch into some personal attacks over this (which is fine, emotions are high) in the end, this is going to be a good thing for the future of WPF/Silverlight as every journalist and industry professional world wide now has a question above their heads.. "where is this all going, and is it true you're going to stop working on Silverlight/WPF". Bottom line is, i'm taking one for the team on this one both externally and internally. Corneliu thx for your non-personal attack, always great to see a level headed discussion from you - as per usual :D Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
