Microsoft to Ria Dev’s: We love you now!

WPFe is now Silverlight, according to Microsoft. Sounds great. So whats it do? You could start to answer that question by going straight to the Silverlight homepage. Very nice design, even got a video in the center, not bad a start. After watching the video, two things came to my mind. First, Silverlight enables me to make bad ass skateboards and shit. With Silverlight, I can have a huge fro and crazy dazzling animations will shoot out from behind me as I walk down the street, just as soon as I install Silverlight.

Seriously though, I know I shouldn’t be making fun of the video, its obviously very high production value with top notch camera and animation work, but I just can’t help but laugh at the underlying tones in it. Second, I also kept wondering what applications were used in the making of that video? Whether its the super high end production equipment like Avid or the lower end Apple or Adobe apps, you can rest assured of one thing; It sure as hell wasn’t any Microsoft application.

If you think Silverlight is going to hit the market by storm and tear away web developers by the thousands, then I invite you to read this article. Don’t forget this one too, its amazing how relevant it is even though its nearly 3 years old now. Oh and by the way, this is not Microsoft’s first attempt (via Brandon Ellis) at competing in the interactive arena.

Microsoft obviously realizes that they better start making tools for web developers. The only problem is that its an audience that is skeptical at best and hostile at worst to Microsoft’s promises. So Microsoft, the ball is in your court and all eyes are on you. Time for you to prove just how serious you are about developing a ubiquitous cross platform web and desktop experience.