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Silverlight in the Past Tense… Another Flash Killer bites the dust!

October 29, 2010 burakk

Flash is stronger than ever, as proved by the recent Adobe MAX 2010, and another so called Flash Killer is now gone…

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‘Flash is dead’ Mindset…

June 27, 2007 burakk

Jesse Ezell proclaimed Flash dead on May 2, 2007. On May3, he blogged more details. That post is quite long, softer and may fool some people, he even ends it by saying ‘So, Flash is great. Silverlight just solves a lot of the major problems that I’ve run into with Flash’.

On June 12, Tinic Uro blogged about multi-core support in the upcoming Flash Player. Flash is to take advantage of multiple/multi-core CPUs, promising 25-33% performance enhancement…

Here’s what Jesse blogged: Flash: Now Slowing Down Your Multi-Core PC !

C’mon!

I had trouble believing my eyes. The Jesse I knew was a great guy I respected (though not always agreed with his opinions). After seeing that post, it feels sad but, he lost me.

That’s the same blinded mindset we saw with ‘RIA = Rich Interactive Applications’ supporters.

I’m beginning to seriously think that it’s not only money but Microsoft really makes use of brain implant chips which, as a side effect (or due to a bug), blinds ones judgment. If you are an MS fanboy, at least you can try to pretend to be fair, doesn’t that make sense?

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Silverlight Developer Poster Instructions

May 22, 2007 burakk

Brad Becker of MS gives instructions for the ‘Silverlight Developer Reference Poster‘ PNG he posted: "Print this out in color and put it on your wall." Read it carefully, black and white won’t do and you must put it on your wall :) Do Silverlight developers need such clear(!) commands instructions? I guess, without the instructions, some would print it b/w and some would put it on another thing which is not-a-wall. And, OMG, probably some wouldn’t print it at all and will try to get it free from MS at conferences…

Have a look at the poster PNG, and see what the ‘Silverlight 1.1 developer reference‘ consists of… It’s nice as a promotional poster but call it a ‘developer reference’ and I’d be insulted if I were a Silverlight developer.

- Hey, Silverlight developer, what’s the tool for Silverlight developers?
- Wait a minute, let me check my reference poster on my wall… hmm, yes, it’s ‘Microsoft Visual Studio’.

- What can yo?u tell me about XAML Parser?
- XAML Parser?!? Oh, yes, it’s a ‘subset of WPF’
- And…
- It’s in the ellipse thingy titled ‘presentation Core’
- Oh, you are a great developer! I worship you master!
- (Thanks to my color ”Silverlight 1.1 developer reference‘ on my wall.)

Seriously, if you are a Silverlight developer, can you post a comment and tell me if you’d put this on your wall or not? (Note: comments appear after moderation).

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Silverlight must Live!

May 8, 2007 burakk

If you want to read a great analysis, read Grant Skinner’s (and while at there check out the next post, free gAlign Panel). Update: Chafic Kazoun also has a great post (Via Keith Peters’ Bit-101) .

Silverlight will certainly fail its role as the Flash killer. (Why? Because it’s from Microsoft). What I’m worried about is not Silverlight killing Flash, I’m worried about what will happen when MS guys get this. Without any other choice, desperately, MS will want to buy Adobe. Can they? I don’t know, both Adobe and Microsoft are giant companies as far as I’m concerned, but MS is known to have lots of money.

Now, I wouldn’t want that happen.

Silverlight gotta have enough success that MS won’t kill it early. Silverlight must live!

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