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Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we're-not-gonna-take-it dept.

aesoteric writes "A legion of Silverlight developers have threatened revolt after Microsoft made no mention of Silverlight or .Net in the vendor's brief video preview for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Developers expressed fears Microsoft might let their investment in skills 'die on the vine' as Redmond finally embraces open standards. Microsoft, for their part, have told developers they can't say more until September."

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  1. Re:I am a Silverlight Developer by bmo · · Score: 1, Troll

    >very rich user experience over the web that was cross platform.

    "Runs on all versions of Windows" is not cross-platform.

    Ever.

    >insane

    Yes, yes you are, or a Microsoft shill. Anyone who says "rich user experience" is a shill. It's one of those marketing terms that means absolutely nothing, but market-dweebs think it's important, so they tell everyone to use it to support the company line.

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    BMO