The Windows 8 Post That Never Was

Posted Date: 8/30/2011 3:39:16 AM by Dan Martin

I was digging through my collection of half-written blog posts and found one regarding the Windows 8 demo and the resulting fallout from back in June. It was amusing at first to watch people freak out about HTML5 & JavaScript. There was a good mixture of laughter and shaking of my head as I read through the replies in the epic Silverlight.net forum threads that resulted in millions of page views. I had all sorts of absurd and moronic quotes written down. I even put to practice my awful Photoshop skills to make a funny picture describing the situation (linked below). I started to make the case for and against all the rage. I had jotted down my own predictions and what I expected to see announced at the BUILD 2011 conference in September and so on and so on…

So why not finish it?

I don’t care anymore. If you want to think Silverlight is dead, be my guest. If you think using JavaScript is a return to the stone ages then more power to you. I don’t care. Maybe it’s because I never invested any significant time into Silverlight/WPF. Maybe it’s because I do not see any problem with using HTML5 & JavaScript. Or maybe it’s because I really don’t have a damn clue what the future will be. In either case I don’t care enough to debate that topic anymore. I just want to move on and continue to learn. The individual technology does not concern me much. I just want to get smarter and better at software development. And hopefully whatever the story is for Windows 8 or Windows 15, I will be good enough to leverage those technologies and build something cool.

Cool story bro, but you finished it anyway!

Yeah I know, but maybe I really just wanted a reason to post my terrible image...