Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart

Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by rbanffy on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:02PM (#3271227)

Interesting. This must be a new position within Microsoft - it deviated significantly from the previous Silverlight idea of using C# within an environment provided by a browser plug-in.

Now that they discontinued the plugin (was it a month ago?), they feel it's OK to criticize Google's approach.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by rbarooah on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:56PM (#3271462)

If they've decided to abandon plugins and proprietary languages in favor of javascript, why shouldn't they feel that it is ok to criticize Google's approach?

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by rbanffy on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:46PM (#3271889)

Usually, when you defend a flawed approach for years and spend millions of dollars on it, it's surprising to see you attack a competitor for following a very similar but slightly less flawed approach, weeks after you partially and not very publicly acknowledge your mistake.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by contextfree on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:16PM (#3271535)

They haven't officially discontinued anything.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by rbanffy on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:09PM (#3271733)

I think they announced the EOL'ing of the browser plugin.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by ConstantineXVI on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:54PM (#3271919)

Strictly, not yet. They /did/ announce that IE in Win8 (in Metro mode) won't support plugins of any kind, Silverlight included.

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Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart by rbanffy on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:01PM (#3271948)

So, they are criticizing the approach they still endorse?

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