{"id":3127,"date":"2010-09-09T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3127-microsoft-wrestles-with-html5-vs-silverlight-futures.html"},"modified":"2010-09-09T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T09:12:31","slug":"microsoft-wrestles-with-html5-vs-silverlight-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3127-microsoft-wrestles-with-html5-vs-silverlight-futures.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wrestles with HTML5 vs Silverlight futures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Microsoft Silverlight Product Manager Scott Barnes<\/a> has posted a series of tweets following a visit to Microsoft:<\/p>\n

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So.. after a week in Microsoft HQ etc.. i have a lot of inside info that just basically puts into question the future of #Silverlight<\/a> #wpf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

he remarks<\/a>, and then<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Barnes positions it as a fight between Windows\/IE9 backing HTML5, and the developer division backing Silverlight. He also suggests that Microsoft is contemplating<\/a> a classic \u201cEmbrace and extend\u201d strategy for HTML:<\/p>\n

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HTML5 is the replacement for WPF.. IE team want to fork the HTML5 spec by bolting on custom windows APi’s via JS\/HTML5<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He says further that Microsoft has<\/a> \u201cshut down the designer story\u201d \u2013 I am not sure what that implies, though I can imagine that a lot of money has been sunk into the Expression tools without drawing significant market share from Adobe\u2019s Creative Suite.<\/p>\n

Barnes is a straight-talking guy but clearly this is all speculation. Nevertheless it is obvious that, on the eve of launching IE9 beta with its fast JavaScript engine, hardware accelerated graphics, and pixel-precise bitmap drawing, Microsoft has a tricky job positioning HTML5 vs Silverlight. For that matter, even positioning Silverlight vs desktop Windows Presentation Foundation is not easy.<\/p>\n

Since we are also on the eve of launch for Windows Phone 7, which Microsoft has flagged as a strategic product and which uses Silverlight as its app platform, it seems unlikely that the technology will be sidelined; but rumours of internal divisions on the subject do not surprise me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Microsoft Silverlight Product Manager Scott Barnes has posted a series of tweets following a visit to Microsoft: So.. after a week in Microsoft HQ etc.. i have a lot of inside info that just basically puts into question the future of #Silverlight #wpf he remarks, and then: Right now there’s a faction war inside … Continue reading Microsoft wrestles with HTML5 vs Silverlight futures<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,77,80],"tags":[463,494,586,825,1040],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-software-development","tag-html5","tag-internet-explorer-9","tag-microsoft","tag-silverlight","tag-wpf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}