By now you?ve probably heard that we?ve shipped Silverlight 2.0. Many folks love it, some folks don?t care. Though I avoided spend much time at all with Silverlight 1.0 and resisted 2.0 until it neared commercial quality delivery, my personal interest is just gaining momentum. So now that Silverlight 2.0 is an officially released product I thought I?d share some thoughts. When it comes to software development, I tend to be PRAGMATIC above all else. I?m not one of those guys (and we have them here at Microsoft, even on my own team) who emerge themselves in the latest technology for little more reason then that fact that it?s the ?new thing?. Don?t get me wrong, we NEED those guys. They will flush out the problems and shape the technology that...(read more) ...
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