How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

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re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Ryan Christensen — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:07:26 GMT

Why not LiquidMotion? hehe

Nieuwe naam voor WPF/e; Hoe verzinnen ze het?

.NET - The place of happiness for everyone. — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:36:57 GMT

Je mag aannemen dat het de meesten niet is ontgaan dat WPF/e, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere een...

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Kirk Jackson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:22:34 GMT

Classic! I can't believe you didn't use WPFLRCAPR2UESP1CTP though!

How we came up with Silverlight

Darryl Burling @ Work — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:07:51 GMT

Tim Sneath has a great peice on humour on how we came up with the name silverlight. Check it out . Great

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

yuvipanda — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:44:17 GMT

Don't tell me that Timed Interleaved Media Service (TIMS) didn't make that ten...

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

yuvipanda — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:44:52 GMT

P.S. According to slashdot in a couple of days, it'll be rechristened $ilverlight :D

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

mmm — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:45:22 GMT

I'm glad you didn't name it Silverflash .. that would be too obvious .. :-)

Anyway, nice piece :-)

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

tonyadobe — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:30:04 GMT

How about:

ITI - innovation through immitation

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Diego — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:51:37 GMT

It's obvious how you came up with it. Silverlight. Silver-light. That would be one way you could describe a flash, right? Flash? Adobe Flash? The "Flash Killer"

Couldn't have taken more than two minutes to come up with the name Silverlight.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Wayne2K — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:24:29 GMT

I came here from JoS (http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.483232.4) but I'll just reiterate my comment from there:

Sparkle would've been better.

The name Silverlight sounds like a fake word. Just compare it with some really successful product names: Photoshop, Windows, Office, Google, AutoCAD. Those names invoke some meaning.

I admit that Sparkle is a little too close to "Flash" and they're probably trying to avoid that, but c'mon...it is going to be competing with Flash.

Let's see if I can think of one on my own (Sparkle was the code-name for Microsoft Expressions!)...

Motion. (Introducing Microsoft Motion!! that sounds good.)

Dazzle. (probably taken)

Rainbow.

Argh, I can't think of anymore...coming up with good product names is hard!

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Tim — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:03:52 GMT

How about Splash

That's what they call window art in the sign painting business.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Kevin — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:57:18 GMT

SilverLight - note the S, and the V, and the G, which of course is the acronym for SVG or "Scalable Vector Graphics", which it the technology produced by the W3C, that basically does the same stuff. This is the conspiracy theory being played with over there on their newsgroups. Furthermore SilverLight has more letters stuffed between S-V-G, alluding very sneakily to the fact that Silverlight has more features.

Frankly I think it's a total coincidence, but it's still fun to watch people dream this up.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Kamran Shahid — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:02:49 GMT

Why Not WepLet

{From Java Applet to microsoft WepLet}.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

vhi — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:50:31 GMT

Obviously, it came from Flash :-)

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Faisal — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:48:12 GMT

Hey, how about 'Crash!'.

Introducing the NEW WIndows Crash! Crashing onto a desktop or mobile internet device near you!

Or Flare. Man, that's the FL from FLash, ain't it?

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Ryan Christensen — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:40:40 GMT

>>How about Splash

Originally Flash was called FutureSplash

>> Motion.

Microsoft ALREADY had a "flash killer" that was killed called LiquidMotion back in the day.

Just Sparkle or Silver would have been better I agree but as long as its good tech it won't matter the name. Is it good tech? We shall see...

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Ryan Christensen — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:41:52 GMT

Silverlight circa 1998 as LiquidMotion http://www.microsoft.com/mind/1198/liquid/liquid.asp

Resumo da semana - 21/04/07

Console.Write(this.Opinion) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:47:16 GMT

Como já expliquei aqui, tive uma semana cheia, portanto o resumo ficou meio magrinho, vou tentar me atualizar

More Silverlight and Expression

Kelly White — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:00:00 GMT

Tim Sneath is awesome, if you don't read his blog , you should. You really, really should. He's

How did Microsoft come up with SilverLight?

help.net — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:47:09 GMT

Well this is a funny post by Tim Sneath, and raise some question about who's in charge of naming

VB On Silverlight

The Visual Basic Team — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:32:26 GMT

One of the great things about being on the VB team is that we’re generally in the loop early and often

Light up the web

(Andrei)Iacob.Blog(); — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:56:04 GMT

De când nu am mai scris în blog, multe s-au mai întâmplat. Academic Tour 3.0, o excursie de două zile

So - have you seen Silverlight yet?

Clare Dillon's Blog — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:42:03 GMT

.. If not, it's time! Between the amazing demos and the news about .NET support on different platforms

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Srini — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:53:08 GMT

From what I've seen so far, SilverLight looks cool. But what a stupid, unoriginal name! Silverlight = light with a sparkle=Flash! Guys you killed a great product with a ho-hum name that's too close to Flash.

Novidades do Silverlight

Oneda — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:41:48 GMT

No evento MIX , que ocorreu na semana passada em Las Vegas, o grande destaque foram os anúncios envolvendo

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Tim — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:57:25 GMT

Why didn't you just go with ShockwaveCopy?

or NotFlash, or maybe just BrightLight instead of Flash (though you went with light)

tonyadobe-- "How about: ITI - innovation through imitation"

very very nice, should be the name of the company

How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Joben.Rara.blogs(".NET") — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:49:25 GMT

Read the different names they were considering before settling on Silverlight. This is amusing. You can

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Jarek — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:26:42 GMT

Czemu tu ludzie piszą w obcych językach? Powinno być zakazane.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

generica — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:37:21 GMT

I love the name "Silverlight", this sounds great !

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Xavi Guardia — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:19:03 GMT

I have been in your presentation in Madrid. Name is fantastic, and the product is also fantastic.

Congratulations.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Max — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:09:48 GMT

Saw the Sivlerlight in action.

It is really cool.

Flex(Flash) vs Silverlight

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Nicolas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:58:55 GMT

Many startups have asked me questions regarding Silverlight during the last few weeks. I have written a blog post to answer the most frequent questions I was asked. I hope it can help you: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/nicolas_kardas/archive/2007/06/07/silverlight-what-you-need-to-know.aspx

I also link to useful resources for startups/developers who want to build on Silverlight.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Kurrgo, Master of Planet X — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:37:15 GMT

Silverlight reminds me of silverfish. Yuk.

I liked Sparkle.

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

memeovore — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:53:31 GMT

I thought it was just going to be called critical update.

;)

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Caloy Fanunal — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:07:29 GMT

Why nobody b-stormed - Flashlight! - keep me out from the dark my Lord, I don't wanna be there...Flashlight...

re: How Did We Come Up With Silverlight?

Silverlight — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:23:55 GMT

How about...

1. WFA (Windows Fake Advantage)

2. Macro-soft Clipboard

3. Shortcut to Flash

4. Copy of Shortcut to Flash (1)

5. Copy of Shortcut to Flash (2)

6. Copy of Shortcut to Flash (3)

...

1+e∞. Copy of Shortcut to Flash (∞)