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First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Martin Heller finds Silverlight 3 gaining ground on Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Silverlight 2 had lagged. No longer do developers need to build desktop WPF apps based loosely on corresponding Silverlight RIAs, as Silverlight 3 adds the ability to install Silverlight apps on the desktop, update them in place, detect Net connectivity state changes, and store data locally and securely. Moreover, solid Expression Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2010 betas provide developers with much improved tools to create Silverlight RIAs. '"I do not expect many Adobe shops to give up their Flash, Flex, and AIR for Silverlight 3. I do expect many Microsoft shops to do more RIAs with Silverlight now that it's more capable and to create lightweight browser/desktop Silverlight 3 applications where they might have fashioned heavier-weight Windows Forms or WPF client applications," Heller says.'"
This comment is "troll", while "Silverlight is awful. I hope it dies a quick death soon" is "informative"? /. is becoming a pile of shit.
My book: Friendly F#, fun with game development and XNA; my game: Galaxy Wars by VSTeam; my gamedev language: Casanova.
I still use Windows XP.
Yeah, I can hear the groaning in the room as I type.
However I just couldn't stand having driver problems with graphics and videos.
My favorite Linux distro is Linux Mint and all I can say is *WOW Finally!*
I probably won't ever get Windows 7 since Mint runs so well right out of the initial install.
I've only been using it for a few days though. But every other distro (including Ubuntu which Mint is based off of) has left me disappointed from the start.
I'm hoping Linux grows at an even bigger pace now.
What's this, you say? An anti-Microsoft post on Slashdot with 100% opinion, 0% content or information, modded up to Informative? Say it ain't so!