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

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

  4. 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.