Microsoft To Open Source Some of Silverlight

Kurtz writes with word that Microsoft is about to follow in Adobe's footsteps by releasing the source code to part of its Silverlight technology. The news comes less than a week after Adobe announced plans to open source the Flex SDK. Microsoft is hungry to build the developer base for its rich Internet app tools, if it can.

Comments

Finish what you started

[Riquez]

I mean, call me picky, but shouldn't they finish developing IE to an acceptable standard before they start on a Flash competitor?

Re:Auto-print

[lolocaust]

It was probably the printer friendly version that was linked, so it'd make sense to automatically show the print dialog. The alternative would be to have the article on 8 pages each with its own talking smiley pop-up that scares the shit out of you due to its creepy "I wuv you" catchphrase and the fact you forgot that your speakers were on pretty loud.

here's a preview

[NickFortune]

#include "bsod.h"

main() { if(running_on_linux()) { crash(horribly, messily); } return proprietary_blob(patented); }

/* anyone remember the days when slashdot allow you to quote pre-formatted text? */