Everyone is talking about the name change of WPF/E to Silverlight. If you don't know anything about it, then you've probably have been under a rock.
Anyway, I thought some historical reflection might prove insightful. As we all know, Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash. The first version of Flash was released in the spring of 1996, and was originally named FutureSplash.
If Microsoft's new product follows the same trend of shedding excess syllables, will the second release be called Slight?
About Christopher Bennage
Christopher is a software developer and consultant at Blue Spire Consulting, a company he co-founded with Rob Eisenberg in 2006.
He is a Christian, a marginal musician, and an armchair philosopher. His interests include programming, liberal education, science, truth, beauty, and a number of deceased British authors (C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and most recently Owen Barfield.)
He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife and three children and still prefers to play as the Night Elves in WarCraft 3.
