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Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the go-on-start-wooing dept.

CWmike writes to tell us that with the impending release of their Silverlight 2.0 product, Microsoft is poised to enact the next phase of their plan, wooing developers and designers directly. Microsoft is funding a French open-source project designed to allow programmers to utilize the Eclipse framework to build Silverlight apps. "Microsoft is also releasing for free a set of programming templates called the Silverlight Control Pack under its Microsoft Permissive License, as well as the technical specification for Silverlight's Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) vocabulary via Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. The latter, said Goldfarb, should make it easier for would-be Silverlight developers."

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  1. An Even Shorter Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The important parts of the summary:

    Microsoft ... Developers ... ... developers ... ... developers.

    1. Re:An Even Shorter Summary by Xaemyl · · Score: 1, Funny

      Microsoft ... Developers ... ... developers ... ... developers. *throws chairs*

      There. Fixed that for you.

    2. Re:An Even Shorter Summary by Captain+Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ballmer: "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale Silverlight?"

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      Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
    3. Re:An Even Shorter Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I have never danced with Ballmer. I have only been screwed by Microsoft (it hurt).

      So no, I have not danced with the devil in the pale Silverlight.

  2. Sluts by orsocio · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...under its Microsoft Permissive License..."

    love the way Microsoft kinda imply that open source is so slutty...

  3. Re:While I don't like Flash. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But your forgetting... Silverlight is.. awesomer than Flash!

    Credit

  4. The proper way to woo. by bionicpill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows real developers work on beer, not on Eclipse.

    1. Re:The proper way to woo. by CallsignBaron · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everyone knows real developers work on beer, not on Eclipse.

      No, real developers live on coffee and they fear the daylight. They may actually get more done during an Eclipse.

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      "I reject your reality and substitue my own." ~ Adam Savage, Mythbuster extraordinaire.
  5. Lovely rant, but I have to know one thing by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    How the hell did you get all that in there fast enough to be the top page post? I just picture someone foaming at the mouth and typing so fast hummingbirds are frightened.

    I have my problems with Microsoft too, but damn. Go outside. Walk a park. Read a book. You don't need an ulcer at your age.

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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.
  6. Re:While I don't like Flash. by bheer · · Score: 2, Funny

    > when coupled with mxmlc or mtasc you have everything you need to develop swfs in eclipse.

    Dude, you probably have some keys stuck on your keyboard or something :-)

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    Go somewhere random
  7. Goldfarb by naasking · · Score: 2, Funny

    The latter, said Goldfarb, should make it easier for would-be Silverlight developers."

    I'm glad to see Microsoft's goblin integration program is still going strong.

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    Higher Logics: where programming meets science.
  8. must...resist! by cyclomedia · · Score: 2, Funny

    developers developers developers developers
    developers developers developers developers
    developers developers developers developers
    *throws chair*
    *throws chair*

    developers developers developers developers
    developers developers developers developers
    developers developers developers developers
    G.P.L.
    G.P.L.?

    G...P...L...!!??
    Not the...
    G...P...L...!!!!

    developers...

    [well the karma was nice while it lasted]

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    If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.