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May 10, 2007
Microsoft nomenclature
Microsoft nomenclature: Seems like I'm not the only one confused by Microsoft's recent announcements... here, Scott Fulton of BetaNews tries to figure out what Bill Gates was talking about with a Silverlight MLB.com demo, and what Steve Ballmer was talking about with "Silverlight Extended", and what everybody else is talking about when they say "Ajax" or "JScript" and all the rest. I'm still puzzled by that MLB.com demo Microsoft presumably funded, and how it differs from the current SWF interfaces at MLB Gameday, ESPN, Yahoo Sports and the rest... everytime I go in to check it's not gametime. I can see MLB.com going for Microsoft video, because they already lock down their video feeds to prevent copying... the compressed game videos are big timesavers, and are a valuable asset for the site. But the rest of it... well, I guess I'm not the only one with difficulty surfing through the new naming conventions.... ;-)
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 10, 2007 04:05 PM
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Longhorn turned out to have many branches when it finally arrived as Vista. Why should this new Microsoft incarnation be any different? I think it's SKU'd, Dude!
Posted by: George Girton at May 10, 2007 06:50 PM
An interesting article at RegDeveloper also notes the confusion, but then focusses on the 1.1 runtime and does give some useful info.
My favourite quote:
[XAML is] just text so it compresses very, very well, rather than putting your code into an opaque binary object that doesn't compress well"
whilst technically true, completely misses the point that a 'binary object' will always be smaller than a compressed text (XML) equivalent. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Siverlight's product manager!
(p.s. surprised you haven't mentioned this article yet ;-)
[jd sez: Yup, some of the MS statements have contained howlers -- the comments on accessibility there are also revealing. For Tim's article, I was trying to find additional metrics yesterday... here's what I've found so far.]
Posted by: Simon at May 11, 2007 04:55 AM