Silverlight

I came back from holiday this week and Ben mentioned Silverlight to me. I had to own up and say "huh?" and was told that this is the new name for WPF/E. Awww, come on....WPF/E rolled off the tongue so much better than Silverlight ;)

Weird change of approach perhaps? We used to have cool code names like Origami that we then changed to Ultra Mobile PC but here it looks like we've gone the other way. PLEASE don't tell me Silverlight is the new codename and we're going to change it again? Doesn't look like it. Oh, and I'm looking forward to seeing the Silverlight site Silverlight enabled on April 30th. Do they have something else up their sleeve ? :)

Meantime, check out their cool downloads

Hat tip to Jeremy

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Comments

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2007
  A code name exists until a better name is found (although not unheard of for an end product to keep it's codename, Delphi and Longhorn both come to mind). And the better name is normally choosen around a number of factors including target audience: Developers understand the meaning of WCF, and few end users need to know it exists. Since Silverlight will be very visable to users (thinking of users getting prompted to download the plug in etc...), silverlight seems more friendly compared to the techy speak sounding name WPF/E.

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2007
  i like it. it doesn't give me slightest idea what it is, and neither does the logo, but who cares? at least it isn't called "Silverlight 2007, Web Server Edition" or something similar.

• Anonymous
  April 25, 2007
  I thought from the standard naming is to use four or more word, so for the consumer. "Sliverlight 2007, Consumer Home Edition Refresh Release With Service Pack 1". Ohh wait the Service Pack 1 will come later, this is RTM. Ohh wait no it is Beta 1 "Sliverlight 2007, Consumer Home Edition Beta 1"