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Posted by: host 4/16/2007 12:15 PM

Personally, I have always had a hard time thinking of clever names for software. But I think even I could have come up with something better than Silverlight. I'm imagining a whiteboard somewhere on the MS campus with scribblings something like:

FLASH      (nope, this name taken)
FLASHLIGHT   (legal says "no")
SILVERLIGHT   (thumbs up!)
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Re: WPF/E Gets a Name    By Anonymous on 4/18/2007 1:28 PM
Man, MS has their heads up their pooper sometimes. What the hell kind of name is Silverlight? It's just as retarded as their choice for .NET 2.5 aka .NET 3.0.

Their marketing dorks are either:
1. Getting old and out of touch
2. Have never used a programming technology
3. Are completely out of names for products
4. Smoking crack and having an orangutan pull names out of a hat
5. All of the above.

-Jim Losi
Re: WPF/E Gets a Name    By Anonymous on 4/18/2007 1:39 PM
This was some odd timing - just a short time after I posted that I came across this Dilbert

-Andy
Re: WPF/E Gets a Name    By Anonymous on 4/20/2007 8:00 AM
HAHH! That's great!!! and I'd say it was perfect timing :D

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