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XAML Development Today, But Not From Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the innervatin' dept.

Paul Colton writes "My company, Xamlon, has just released its flagship product, also called Xamlon. It allows for XAML development on all supported Windows platform, from Win98 through Longhorn. We're also investigating Mono and Java as possible development targets. CNET recently wrote a story of our launch."

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  1. Promotions? by mfh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My company, Xamlon, has just released its flagship product, also called Xamlon.

    Thank you for your nice advertisement. No seriously. Why post a story to Slashdot about your own product or service? That is what the millions of Slashdotters around the net are for. It's hard enough for one of us to get a story posted... now we have to compete with the source?

    It allows for XAML development on all supported Windows platform, from Win98 through Longhorn.

    That's an example of why you should allow journalists to do their job and report news. You forgot to pluralize platform. Your sentence should read, It allows for XAML development on supported Windows platforms.

    Grammatically, you can't possibly list supported operating systems in the article by date without explaining yourself, so you should have linked to a page that would show the supported operating system. But even that page is scarce with info about supported operating systems and says: "The engine is .NET 1.1 compatible and runs on any .NET 1.1 platform (Windows 98 - Longhorn)", which is only specific if the reader knows which operating systems are included in the subset Windows 98 - Longhorn, and many do not. If you meant that you could support any operating system released since Windows 98, why didn't you just say that? It leads the reader to think that maybe there is an OS that is not supported somewhere in that subset, but you are not reporting it because of some business reasons.

    Yes, I think your product seems quite wonderful. But you're going about promotion the wrong way. I happen to like the fact that you're competing with Microsoft based off their own specs!

    FTA: Xamlon built the program from the published technical specifications of Microsoft's own user interface development software, which Microsoft itself doesn't plan to release until 2006.

    Doesn't that open your company up for lawsuits? (IANAL)

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  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Interesting

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  3. Just to ask a really stupid question by codepunk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why on earth would anyone use XAML over XUL which runs everywhere on every platform?

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