Microsoft Insight of the Day by Windows Forms Architect

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

Brian Pepin - the Microsoft Windows Forms Architect - offers some
insight on why a Windows 2009-only Avalon desktop composition engine
is a non-starter.

Brian writes: People buy Windows because of the apps they can run on
Windows. Developers write apps for Windows because it is the most
pervasive platform so they get the broadest reach. Producing a
brand-new API and only exposing it on a version of Windows that no one
has does not encourage developers to spend valuable time writing apps
for it, especially if they can write to an existing API and support
both the old and new operating systems.

Source: http://www.urbanpotato.net/default.aspx/document/1849

What's your take? Do you see interest building up in Avalon and XAML?

- Gerald

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Gerald Bauer
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[marc_clifton2000]

Post by Gerald Bauer
What's your take? Do you see interest building up in Avalon and XAML?

Did you notice there was not one mention of XAML? No one has even
asked "will I be able to use XAML with the Avalon namespace on XP?"

I think Microsoft's concept of XAML is history. Mwahaha!

Marc



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