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September 14, 2005
WPF/E info
WPF/E info: In Microsoft's announcements today there was something about "Windows Presentation Foundation 'Everywhere'", which was a way to see some of the Avalon goodness without buying a new operating system (and presumably hardware). I couldn't search up anything earlier today, but now there are impressions from Adam Kinney (above), Michael Coates, Ben Galbraith, and more. It's an interesting problem... to get enterprise adoption they'd often have to offer at least some way for non-Vista audience members to participate... there's MS Office for Macintosh, Outlook Web Mail for the rest of the world, ActiveX for IE/Mac, and so on. To get new runtimes on multiple platforms, particularly when relying on difficult media elements like audio and video... well, my immediate thought is that they might make a wrapper SWF to handle XAML files in the Macromedia Flash Player... seems to make more sense than writing their own native-code engines and hoping people will download and update them. The overall announcement makes a lot of sense, and this afternoon we're starting to see conference attendees describe what they heard at the event.
Posted by John Dowdell at September 14, 2005 05:22 PM
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