Most propably it will in a some way. There most probably, I would say is about good 80%, and some way, is "will be left as is, and will not be promoted in any way". The rumors, strong rumors, for this are floating for about a year as of now. And Microsoft is holding a silence for too long on that matter.
Some individual responses by Rob Relyea are trying to deny this, but look at Rob Relyea current position: Program Manager on Kinect for Windows Team. And then Past: * Program Manager/Architect on WPF/XAML (2001-2011). Suddenly after 10 years on WPF/XAML he is in some quite other role.
Look at the official WPF team blog. Silence since November, 2010. That's not how actively developed product blog looks like. The last big boom (and only?) about WPF was about porting Visual Studio 2010 UI to WPF, this was end of year 2009.
Nowadays, Microsoft talks all about HTML5 and JavaSript, much more than about WPF, which is quite suspicious by itself: Microsoft will stand ground puching it's own technology, if possible. One of last WPF PDC videos (7:00 AM, no audience, no questions, and horrible quality of recording) is just "beating about the bush". It's not what you expect from technology vNext presentation. Watching this video, I can just say that next version of WPF is Silverlight. WPF will be left as a host, engine, core, whatever you like, to support existing infrastructure around WPF. Future development will be forced to move to Silverlight, and there is a reason — to push and boost Windows Phone 7 applications.
The most intriguing question about all that, is, why is this happening? I think this sitiation have many aspects, this is that this comes to mind:
This note is rather confused, yet I hope it will provide you with some food for thought.
Next post on subject.
Some individual responses by Rob Relyea are trying to deny this, but look at Rob Relyea current position: Program Manager on Kinect for Windows Team. And then Past: * Program Manager/Architect on WPF/XAML (2001-2011). Suddenly after 10 years on WPF/XAML he is in some quite other role.
Look at the official WPF team blog. Silence since November, 2010. That's not how actively developed product blog looks like. The last big boom (and only?) about WPF was about porting Visual Studio 2010 UI to WPF, this was end of year 2009.
Nowadays, Microsoft talks all about HTML5 and JavaSript, much more than about WPF, which is quite suspicious by itself: Microsoft will stand ground puching it's own technology, if possible. One of last WPF PDC videos (7:00 AM, no audience, no questions, and horrible quality of recording) is just "beating about the bush". It's not what you expect from technology vNext presentation. Watching this video, I can just say that next version of WPF is Silverlight. WPF will be left as a host, engine, core, whatever you like, to support existing infrastructure around WPF. Future development will be forced to move to Silverlight, and there is a reason — to push and boost Windows Phone 7 applications.
The most intriguing question about all that, is, why is this happening? I think this sitiation have many aspects, this is that this comes to mind:
- WPF wasn't that successful enough to crown it as main platform for Windows UI. There was a quite of a negative experience with WPF, Evernote 3.5 is popular example. Speed and memory of course is a major factor if you want to put all OS graphics on that, Windows is not that fast by it's own, that to think about WPF?
- Windows Phone 7+ lobby. If you force developers to use Silverlight, then you have all desktop developers that are able to write GUI and apps for Windows Phone.
- Microsoft wants to get it all with all those HTML[5] and JavaScript developers. If you can write windows apps in Ajax, then Microsoft doubles (at least) number of developers for it's main platform.
This note is rather confused, yet I hope it will provide you with some food for thought.
Next post on subject.
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