Microsoft Silverlight, and the upcoming Mix storm
April 16, 2007 | 6:15 amI feel a storm brewing. I wish I were at Mix ‘07 to have a look at it first hand.
Some of you would’ve heard of this thing called as “WPF/E”, short form for WPF Everywhere, which is supposed to be a Flash competitor. The “/E” naming convention infected the blue monster for a bit, producing SQL/E and WPF/E, but was thankfully wiped out before it did damage on a scale as large as the .NET naming convention.
And today, Soma, the head of the Dev division at Microsoft, posted saying that WPF/E’s “official” name is Silverlight.
Read that again. Silverlight.
Silverlight
And, that wasn’t no stinkin code name. It is the production name!
When I read that post, I got a feeling for which I have no name, but felt similar to the feeling I had when I saw this video.
Friggin cool. Cool enough that it made me forgo Windows Live Writer, my hurting right arm and a dad nagging me about a haircut to post about the name.
Now, if I don’t find this naming news all over Techmeme by this evening, I’m goanna boycott it…
Afterthought: Would someone please gimme something similar to a beta of Longhorn Server so that I can do something about IIS7 other than drooling over the screenshots and feature descriptions? Thank you!
[...] WPF/E is Silverlight now. [...]
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its great to see you back in action. Hope your
Ramesh | April 17, 2007 | 3:43 amits great to see you back in action. Hope your health is getting better.
And still I cannot believe MS came up with such a cool name… they usually change cool ones to rubbish, as they did Indigo to WCF.
Yep. Though Avalon to WPF was something far more terrible
yuvipanda | April 17, 2007 | 3:49 amYep. Though Avalon to WPF was something far more terrible
Yeah, feeling a bit better now.
Though it was cool that Sparkle changed to Expression Interactive Designer, then went back to a cooler Expression Blend
[...] Also interesting (nah, damn interesting) are the community samples
YuviSense: Kid in Tech » Blog Archive » Silverlight Roundup | May 1, 2007 | 3:59 am[…] Also interesting (nah, damn interesting) are the community samples available here. Already, the photo viewver app is now running in IronPython, JScript, VB.NET, etc. There’s even a dynamic console where you can type IronPython code and see it in action real time. The Wow factor is off the scale. Kewl! I see lots more widgets coming… Filed in Tech, Links […]