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Monday April 30 2007

Microsoft leaving software developers behind at Mix07

Filed under: Graphic Design, Microsoft, Silverlight, Web Application, mix07 — colinizer @ 19:17

Microsoft today announced the release of the Expression tools suite. These tools including XAML and Silverlight support.

XAML support is not due to be released for about 6+ months in Visual Studio Orcas. Silverlight inclusion of .NET (’announced’ today) has no timeframe, and Silverlight support in VS requires Orcas; same problem.

If you’re a software developer you have no supported tools for doing cool web stuff. If you are a graphic/web designer you now have some cool stuff.

Perhaps the mantra should now be “Designers, designers, designers”

1 Comment »

  1. Even for desktop apps: You still have to use Orcas :( Hope it’s VS 2007, not 2008.

    Comment by Yuvi — Wednesday May 2 2007 @ 3:07

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