Comments on: Microsoft shines cool on WPF/E, turns on Silverlight – Long wins first prize for cheeky article titles

By: Microsoft’s Silverlight - Creating richer Web Experience

Microsoft’s Silverlight - Creating richer Web Experience — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:37:32 +0000

[...] has released Silverlight code names “WPF/E” (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere). As Long Zheng points out that everybody including Business Week is talking about Silverlight as new Video Player [...]

By: » Microsoft Fine-Tuning Branding » InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:51:43 +0000

[...] think names are important, witness the attention Silverlight is getting on TechMeme. Yeah, now it’s important, whereas no one was paying attention to [...]

By: Quakr

Quakr — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:02:11 +0000

Check out http://www.silverlight.com, you’re in for a surprise !

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:21:56 +0000

and what’s with the name… Silverlight? Come on… that’s like they used the MS Word thesaurus to find a synonym for Flash…

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:19:16 +0000

boooooooring.

Okay so I can develop for this Silverlight thingy… only bummer is that a) there are only 10 people out there in WWW land that can view my content… b) every single one of of my clients want Flash content developed. I think I might put this into the too little too late category.

Another technology where Microsoft simply missed the boat with this one as with so many other things… search, online apps, the list goes on and on and on…

As Wired magazine said the best move for Microsoft would be to buy Google and Myspace and be done with it… only bummer is that their 33 billion dollar war chest wouldn’t even afford them to buy Google. Let alone both.

As per usual Microsoft do what they do best… copy not innovate. as I said pretty lame and booooooooring.

By: Microsoft’s Silverlight - Creating richer Web Experience

Microsoft’s Silverlight - Creating richer Web Experience — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:18:18 +0000

By: Michael Griffiths

Michael Griffiths — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:29:07 +0000

Er, they do need to buy the Silverlight.com domain name.

“Created using a Mac”? Hehe.

By: Zim

Zim — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:28:24 +0000

It looks nice, let’s see how it works

By: Michael Griffiths

Michael Griffiths — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:25:20 +0000

Excellent.

Much, much, MUCH better than “WPF/E” and catchier than Flash

By: Microsoft Silverlight - The Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Plug-in

Microsoft Silverlight - The Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Plug-in — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:15:34 +0000

[...] it’s been in the code name “WPF/E” (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere). As Long Zheng points out that everybody including Business Week is talking about Silverlight as new Video Player [...]