I had a look at the new World Wide Telescope created by Microsoft Research today. Like scoble I also wanted to cry when I saw it, but perhaps not for the same reason. Unlike scoble (who did it for publicity) I felt like crying because it seemed like what COULD have been a great showcase for WPF instead stooped to “legacy” technologies. Please MS - WPF was made for creating these kind of apps. If you’re not going to use it to build things like this then why should anyone else?
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James Avery
The site is Flash too. Definitely not an "on message" launch. :)
15/05/2008 9:24:00 AM
Deepak
I think the reason why it is not in WPF is becasue MS wants a high reach. The issue doing this in WPF as I see is that those who do not have the runtime will have to download and install it. Most home users do not like to do such things.
23/05/2008 3:08:00 PM