Microsoft Silverlight

We're not comparing apples to apples, right? So we did everything in our power to stop those POCs.

And ultimately, though, when we did compete with Seismic, early, early days, I knew that Seismic was built on Microsoft Silverlight.

And so they couldn't stand up quick, and we could.

So we put everyone at a POC that we could and had great win rates.

It was a dark time, filled with active exploits, unsupported web standards, and Flash plugins eating all of your system RAM.

Also, Silverlight was a thing? Almost? Peaking in 2004 with almost 96% of the browser market share, Internet Explorer was swiftly toppled by Firefox and Chrome, with Chrome becoming the winner sometime in 2012.

Even though Chrome has been the dominant browser for over a decade, there were a lot of web applications written in the early aughts and 2010s that leveraged IE's unique features.

Not going to call them bugs.

And then there is the WCF and there's...

Silverlight always gets thrown in there, but that's not really their problem.

But at the same time, yeah, it's another app that died because a different big company killed it.

So just because it comes from a big company doesn't mean it's going to be around forever.

That was not the case back in 2006.

Any of us still have PTSD from things like ActiveX controls or Silverlight? Oh, one of my commenters brought up Silverlight.

i had forgotten silverlight anyways right there was a time when microsoft came out with so we're not gonna go into it right but those were the the old days right those were the before times now we know how to build uh basically web uh applications when we want to one of the big things to understand with artificial intelligence is that the stack itself the architecture itself is still incredibly mature we are figuring out how all this stuff should be built in a decade there will be a playbook for how to build ai systems but we are not there yet and this is one of the reasons that i argue against the trillions of dollars of investment into ai data centers simply because we do not know the architecture that we're going to need for ai systems going in the future as i've talked about before right open ai sam allman really believes in intelligence being a utility, just like water or electricity or sewage or something like that, you will go to one provider or multiple providers for the intelligence for your systems.

But if you look at companies such as Google, Google is coming out with small models and building them into everything.

So cool.

I was working in the past also for a precision farming company designing web applications, starting with Silverlight.

There were always so many ideas and so little resources to implement them back then.

If you're a specialist in any field and a developer, it's like you get a genie in a bottle.

Started back in 2006.

It was never – I mean, it was a source forge kind of mindset, but it's definitely the place where – Microsoft would put up early code for us to download and play with and comment on, and we saw that rapid iteration, right? The AJAX toolkit, Silverlight came through that channel.

So by October, it'll be read-only, and by December, it'll be gone and replaced with Archive.

July is when Microsoft announced end of support for Windows Phone.

And they talked about the topological qubit.

And you can go listen to Pat Hein show about that if you really want to dig into it deeply.

But they also then started immediately announcing toolkits.

This becomes Qsharp and Azure Quantum and all that.