{"id":3477,"date":"2010-12-03T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3477-the-top-silverlight-feature-request-implement-on-more-platforms.html"},"modified":"2010-12-03T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T08:04:16","slug":"the-top-silverlight-feature-request-implement-on-more-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3477-the-top-silverlight-feature-request-implement-on-more-platforms.html","title":{"rendered":"The top Silverlight feature request: implement on more platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things mentioned by Microsoft VP Scott Guthrie in his Firestarter<\/a> keynote yesterday was that Silverlight 5, the new version set for release in 2011, implements some 70% of what users have voted for. I presume he means the feedback forum here<\/a>. But look what the top request is \u2013 as noted by a comment<\/a> to yesterday\u2019s post:<\/p>\n

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Looking at the comments, Android is a common request, and relatively easy for Microsoft to achieve given the open nature of that platform.<\/p>\n

This was apparently not part of the 70% though. Instead, Guthrie introduced more Windows-only features \u2013 showing that concerns<\/a> about divergence between Windows and Mac implementations when Microsoft announced COM support at the 2009 PDC were justified.<\/p>\n

What if Microsoft had purchased Novell, or purchased Mono from Novell, instead of letting it go to Attachmate<\/a>? It would have enabled Microsoft to unify the Windows and Linux implementations as well as building on the work the Mono team has done on compilation for iOS.<\/p>\n

That dream is over<\/a> though; the Silverlight application strategy seems focused on making it better for Windows-platform corporations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things mentioned by Microsoft VP Scott Guthrie in his Firestarter keynote yesterday was that Silverlight 5, the new version set for release in 2011, implements some 70% of what users have voted for. I presume he means the feedback forum here. But look what the top request is \u2013 as noted by … Continue reading The top Silverlight feature request: implement on more platforms<\/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":[2,55,77,80,96,97],"tags":[586,607,647,825],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-software-development","category-web-authoring","category-windows","tag-microsoft","tag-mono","tag-novell","tag-silverlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}