Comments on: Silverlight - what IS cool about it?

By: Many Silverlight opportunities - a good problem to have? « Colinizer - tech geek inside your mind

Thu, 03 May 2007 21:13:11 +0000

[...] there are still cool things about the technology and my thoughts on the underlying Microsoft domination strategy (even if it’s a win-win for [...]

By: colinizer

colinizer — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:07:30 +0000

I’ve updated it. Of course with LINQ in it, it would be need to be .NET 3.5, or .NET 3.0 + an early release of LINQ.

I wondered if anyone ever read the about page. I know you from Scoble’s blog - ‘the blog stats dude’. I started programming at around 10 too.

By: Yuvi

Yuvi — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:05:35 +0000

Hi Collin! Thanks for the roundup, but I think some details came out a bit fudged while coming out directly out of Mix. For example, the .NET framework is a subset of .NET 3.5, not 3.0.

And, yep, it’s a lot of WOW: I guess they should’ve reserved the phrase for Mix instead of for Vista launch

P.S: Your about page certainly has a LOT of WOW in it

By: colinizer

colinizer — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:52:10 +0000

Of course Linux is inherently a command shell OS so the implementation would have to be for X-Windows or some other GUI shell.

I’d hazard a guess that the lack of support currently is likely due to the fact that Linux/Unix-based systems are largely not used by consumers. Porting the .NET CLR and languages wouldn’t be so difficult though. It’s the graphical part.

I’m interested to know if Windows PowerShell is attracting any Linux/Unix users. I remember writing a lot of unix command-line tools in C.

By: Batiste Bieler

Batiste Bieler — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:50:11 +0000

Linux is not supported and probably never will.

The good thing is that Adobe will certainly opensource more of software.