Silverlight 2 - Over 100 million served and V3 is coming to Visual Studio..
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Rocky Moore wrote:
It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks.
It's on mine - i just checked to be sure. Don't remember installing it, but whatever - i get to see the flashy demos now. Doesn't seem to do anything about the "install silverlight" nag-ads showing up on random microsoft.com pages though.
Rocky Moore wrote:
It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade!
It started to, but i jiggled the monitor cable and things went back to normal.
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
Mine, too, and I told the damned installer I don't want it.:mad:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Scott Guthrie had a great post on Silverlight a couple days ago. It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks. Seems to be quite a bit of interest now. He also pointed out that V3 will be coming with revamped graphics, 3D and hardware acceleration. From the souunds of it, Blend me be working its way (in some degree) into Visual Studio next year inclue the free web version! Version 3 is moving on with more features for the business world too. It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx[^]
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Keep on your toes – Process Monitor V2.02 Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
On the main desktop at work I admit I installed Silverlight today when I ran windows update. I generally avoid installing this ( and flash ) to avoid the annoying advertisements that seem to love this format. If this causes more than a few of these I will uninstall that asap.
John
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Scott Guthrie had a great post on Silverlight a couple days ago. It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks. Seems to be quite a bit of interest now. He also pointed out that V3 will be coming with revamped graphics, 3D and hardware acceleration. From the souunds of it, Blend me be working its way (in some degree) into Visual Studio next year inclue the free web version! Version 3 is moving on with more features for the business world too. It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx[^]
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Keep on your toes – Process Monitor V2.02 Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
Just written a sliverlight app (page) for one of my companies sister sites, SL2 only has a few limitations before it can become the DT killer. On the whole if you doing WPF, silverlight is a breeze.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
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Scott Guthrie had a great post on Silverlight a couple days ago. It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks. Seems to be quite a bit of interest now. He also pointed out that V3 will be coming with revamped graphics, 3D and hardware acceleration. From the souunds of it, Blend me be working its way (in some degree) into Visual Studio next year inclue the free web version! Version 3 is moving on with more features for the business world too. It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx[^]
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Keep on your toes – Process Monitor V2.02 Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
Rocky Moore wrote:
It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade!
Yeah :) I also remember that the increase in use of computers was going to give us all more leisure time. What happened to that then?
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
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Just written a sliverlight app (page) for one of my companies sister sites, SL2 only has a few limitations before it can become the DT killer. On the whole if you doing WPF, silverlight is a breeze.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
Hi Norm, Hope that when you have time you might send some of that breeze our way with one of your well-written articles; it would be very interesting for me, perhaps for others, to hear you discuss your perceptions of its limitations in its current incarnation. best, Bill (SilverLight virgin)
"The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light that can spring from their contact." Milan Kundera in Testaments Trahis
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Hi Norm, Hope that when you have time you might send some of that breeze our way with one of your well-written articles; it would be very interesting for me, perhaps for others, to hear you discuss your perceptions of its limitations in its current incarnation. best, Bill (SilverLight virgin)
"The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light that can spring from their contact." Milan Kundera in Testaments Trahis
I'm assuming SL3 addresses the lack of functionality in SL3, I'll read up and let you know.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
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Scott Guthrie had a great post on Silverlight a couple days ago. It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks. Seems to be quite a bit of interest now. He also pointed out that V3 will be coming with revamped graphics, 3D and hardware acceleration. From the souunds of it, Blend me be working its way (in some degree) into Visual Studio next year inclue the free web version! Version 3 is moving on with more features for the business world too. It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx[^]
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Keep on your toes – Process Monitor V2.02 Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
"Quite a bit of interest"? Oh, come on now, they only achieved that because it is being pushed out by windoze update. If it was left to peeps to download the numbers would be a lot lower... I bet most users do not even know they have it. And we complained when Apple pushed Safari on us with iTunes... If you do not "want" SL, turn off auto-updates (helps to avoid those annoying forced reboots) and always use the 'custom' option to select what you do (not) want. Personally I love the "never show me this again" checkbox.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade!
Yeah :) I also remember that the increase in use of computers was going to give us all more leisure time. What happened to that then?
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
Baconbutty wrote:
give us all more leisure time.
Good point,I believe that that hasn't occurred yet. Maybe if everything becomes web based and we can access it from anywhere it will free up more of our time. That makes sense right?
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Scott Guthrie had a great post on Silverlight a couple days ago. It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks. Seems to be quite a bit of interest now. He also pointed out that V3 will be coming with revamped graphics, 3D and hardware acceleration. From the souunds of it, Blend me be working its way (in some degree) into Visual Studio next year inclue the free web version! Version 3 is moving on with more features for the business world too. It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx[^]
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Keep on your toes – Process Monitor V2.02 Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
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Mine, too, and I told the damned installer I don't want it.:mad:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Just uninstall it then!
Kevin
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Rocky Moore wrote:
It seems SL2 is now on over 100 million machines in just four weeks.
It's on mine - i just checked to be sure. Don't remember installing it, but whatever - i get to see the flashy demos now. Doesn't seem to do anything about the "install silverlight" nag-ads showing up on random microsoft.com pages though.
Rocky Moore wrote:
It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade!
It started to, but i jiggled the monitor cable and things went back to normal.
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
Shog9 wrote:
Doesn't seem to do anything about the "install silverlight" nag-ads showing up on random microsoft.com pages though.
Yeah, what's going on here?
Kevin
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Rocky Moore wrote:
like the desktop is really starting to fade!
Does this have anything to do with year of the Linux desktop? xD
Linux on the desktop has < 1% market share. Maybe if it rises to 2% it will be the "year of the Linux desktop?"
Kevin
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"Quite a bit of interest"? Oh, come on now, they only achieved that because it is being pushed out by windoze update. If it was left to peeps to download the numbers would be a lot lower... I bet most users do not even know they have it. And we complained when Apple pushed Safari on us with iTunes... If you do not "want" SL, turn off auto-updates (helps to avoid those annoying forced reboots) and always use the 'custom' option to select what you do (not) want. Personally I love the "never show me this again" checkbox.
hieroglyph wrote:
"Quite a bit of interest"? Oh, come on now, they only achieved that because it is being pushed out by windoze update. If it was left to peeps to download the numbers would be a lot lower
Flash came pre-installed on the last 6 PCs I bought. Does wonders for your market penetration...
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Rocky Moore wrote:
It looks like the desktop is really starting to fade!
Yeah :) I also remember that the increase in use of computers was going to give us all more leisure time. What happened to that then?
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
Parkinson's Law still holds: "Work expands to fill all the time available."