I agree that MS has not handled this well, but we don't know the whole story. Should the person that spoke have said something like "in addition to Silverlight, etc" and forgot that part? Were they supposed to say something like "new technologies on the desktop such as..." and forgot? Did marketing screw up the briefing and not include Silverlight?

Keep in mind that it was the Windows division showing things off and Silverlight comes from DevDiv. My guess, the marketing people in Win have no idea what's going on in Dev and didn't ask.

But the outcome is what it is, and something should be said to fix it. Even one line that says, "Silverlight is here and will be part of Win8. Details at Build" would help.


>IMO MJF's first sentence tells us all we need to know:
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>"Telling only part of a story can be worse than keeping completely mum, as Microsoft officials seem to be discovering with Windows 8."
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>Seven million views before the thread was frozen ?!? This can only be considered spectacularly inept behaviour by MS. Are they really going to let speculation run wild for 3+ months?
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>The masters of FUD, hoist'd by their own petard.