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I’ve been asked about what will happen at the BUILD conference ( http://www.buildwindows.com ) many times over the past few weeks and how it will or won’t affect existing client technologies like Silverlight, WPF and so on.

There’s very little that I can say around this area – the company is, understandably, being very careful around disclosing future plans at the right time to the right people and that includes employees like myself.

However, I thought I’d link back to my post around what is public on Windows 8 and to the posts that the folks over in the US point people like myself to when we come along with pesky questions which are these 3 posts;

Standards based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight

http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/standards-based-web-plug-ins-and-silverlight/

Previewing Windows 8

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx

BUILDing a brighter future

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/06/01/building-a-bright-future.aspx

There’s nothing more that I can add here at the moment other than to say that I’ve got my ticket to BUILD and I hope to see you there or would encourage you to watch the show online. To an extent, I’ll be picking up new announcements as they are made just like any other attendee at the event.

After that, I hope that there’ll be a lot more to say Smile

Posted Tue, Jul 19 2011 9:54 AM by mtaulty
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Comments

Tony yu wrote re: Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference
on Wed, Jul 20 2011 1:07 AM

SILVERLIGHT IS DEAD:-(

Anonymous wrote re: Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference
on Wed, Jul 20 2011 1:10 AM

:(

Fallon wrote re: Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference
on Wed, Jul 20 2011 8:19 AM

You said,

"the company is, understandably, being very careful around disclosing future plans at the right time to the right people"

What is it that you understand about that?  I could understand hiding ship dates of anything Windows 8, both hardware and software.

I simply can't figure out what competitive advantage is given away when NOBODY elas on the planet produces Microsoft technologies like XAML/WPF/Silverlight.

Could you explain what it is that you obviously understand, that I'm missing?  Thanks...

mtaulty wrote re: Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference
on Thu, Jul 21 2011 10:32 AM

Fallon,

Windows affects a tonne of people and so I do think that it's quite understandable that the company has a disclosure plan around when and where it publishes information.

In terms of the developer story for Windows 8 - it's clear that this is at the BUILD conference in about 8 weeks time.

Mike.

Rory wrote re: Client Technologies and the BUILD Conference
on Thu, Jul 28 2011 12:21 PM

Well Silverlight has failed to kill Flash, which was its original intention back in 2006. Silverlight has not taken off in the way MS planned as far as general Internet usage. For Internal LOB Intranet then SL in fine and wonderful.

So if Win8 is HTML/JavaScript el at then fine no problems with me. But how namy business users will use it ? Not many I'd think.

But everyone seems to forget that we still need server side technologies e.g .NET to drive the frontends. So if your front end “View” skills are Silverlight just wise up and realise that the HTML / JavaScript community are doing funky stuff already and you don’t need a plugin.

As an aside: I’ve just finished a 6 month Silverlight Intranet contract in the UK, the deployment was to IE7 on XP. So if anyone thinks MS are to abandon .NET you are crazy, they’d be committing commercial suicide

To everyone belly aching about the death of Silverlight / WPF / .NET, just shut up and evolve.

Remember dinosaurs are extinct, things move on.

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