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Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8
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."
I'm sorry programming is hard for you.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
So... lemme get this straight, MS is not the market leader in either dynamic webpages OR cellphones, but it wants to win that market by trying to force people to go with their nonstandard tools that work on nothing but their own platform with a market share the size of OS/2?
Good luck...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
No, not at all. There are many people who can program better than me. It's just not that hard to program. That's my point: if you've bet your career on .net and find the prospect of learning a different technology challenging (so challenging that you'd rather join a revolt), then your main problem is that you are incompetent; it has nothing to do with .net. Really, you should be able to learn a new technology.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
>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