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Yes, shocked by the title of the blog, well it might be true soon, because the Windows development is going uncertain this time. There is in-fighting between Microsoft's Developer and Windows teams about the future of WPF, Silverlight and HTML5 as embodied in IE 9.
Now Microsoft has answered by claiming that there are more than 200 engineers working on Silverlight and WPF - but of course that could be 199 on Silverlight and 1 on WPF.
A Twitter exchange with Scott Barnes (former Product Manager of Silverlight):
Right now there's a faction war inside Microsoft over HTML5 vs Silverlight. oh and WPF is dead.. i mean..it kind of was..but now.. funeral.
(Scott Barnes)
HTML5 is the replacement for WPF.. IE team want to fork the HTML5 spec by bolting on custom windows APi's via JS/HTML5
(Scott Barnes)
Whats the reason behind?
Actually the reason is Microsoft's own madness of dumping .Net. The previous versions of Windows were based on .Net framework, WPF and Silverlight.
Microsoft seem to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8 - is this the end of .NET?
Microsoft feels itself to be under attack in a post-PC world. The problem is that the current boom is in mobile and Microsoft doesn't really do mobile. The PC is so passe and with it Windows is going out of the door and Microsoft seems to want to throw the entire .NET subsystem along with it.
Microsoft clearly has to do something, but at the moment it looks like insanity has taken hold. To bet the farm on HTML and JavaScript being the next big thing is a good bet, but its not a bet that Microsoft can easily take and make good. Even if the world does turn to JavaScript and platform-independent apps this still means that Microsoft loses.
The problem is that Microsoft needs a technology that gives it an edge and HTML/JavaScript is everybody's edge.Microsoft developers feel left in the dark and very angry at the way they are being treated. You only have to browse the Microsoft forums to discover how strong the feeling is... forum post 1, forum post 2 and an open letter.
Now Microsoft has answered by claiming that there are more than 200 engineers working on Silverlight and WPF - but of course that could be 199 on Silverlight and 1 on WPF.
A Twitter exchange with Scott Barnes (former Product Manager of Silverlight):
Right now there's a faction war inside Microsoft over HTML5 vs Silverlight. oh and WPF is dead.. i mean..it kind of was..but now.. funeral.
(Scott Barnes)
HTML5 is the replacement for WPF.. IE team want to fork the HTML5 spec by bolting on custom windows APi's via JS/HTML5
(Scott Barnes)
Whats the reason behind?
Actually the reason is Microsoft's own madness of dumping .Net. The previous versions of Windows were based on .Net framework, WPF and Silverlight.
Microsoft seem to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8 - is this the end of .NET?
Microsoft feels itself to be under attack in a post-PC world. The problem is that the current boom is in mobile and Microsoft doesn't really do mobile. The PC is so passe and with it Windows is going out of the door and Microsoft seems to want to throw the entire .NET subsystem along with it.
Microsoft clearly has to do something, but at the moment it looks like insanity has taken hold. To bet the farm on HTML and JavaScript being the next big thing is a good bet, but its not a bet that Microsoft can easily take and make good. Even if the world does turn to JavaScript and platform-independent apps this still means that Microsoft loses.
The problem is that Microsoft needs a technology that gives it an edge and HTML/JavaScript is everybody's edge.Microsoft developers feel left in the dark and very angry at the way they are being treated. You only have to browse the Microsoft forums to discover how strong the feeling is... forum post 1, forum post 2 and an open letter.
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