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There are three versions of XAML now:
1) WPF
2) Silverlight
3) Metro
WPF XAML is almost frozen, but still used on desktop.
Sliverlight XAML is still used on WinPhone
Metro XAML is definitely alive.
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4) Xamarin Form! 
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These are not really "versions", the only difference is that they map to a different set of namespaces and objects (although using the same XML namespace), but the XAML language (syntax, semantics, etc.) is the same for all of them. I think it's worth noting at this point that XAML is not just useful for UIs. You can actually reuse it in your own solutions where a declarative markup for object composition makes sense, write your own markup extenstions, etc. It's just that no one really uses it for anything else than UI.
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And what about Workflow Foundation? WPF, Silverlight, et al, all use a mere subset of XAML now, as it goes well beyond developing UIs.
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Microsoft is in London this week sponsoring the third-annual Star Trek conference. Instead of just splashing its corporate logo all over the conference, Microsoft has gone a step further by changing its Cortana digital assistant to speak Klingon, the language spoken by Klingons in Star Trek. "bISeH'eghlaH'be'chugh latlh Dara'laH'be'"
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Best served cold, eh?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Always 
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft said in a legal filing that Samsung, the biggest Android phonemaker in the world, paid the software maker more than $1 billion a year to use its technology in Samsung phones. Always good business to keep a little extortion going on the side
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One of the main goals with the Windows 10 Technical Preview is for Microsoft to collect feedback to help shape the final version of the operating system, which is said to be coming sometime in summer 2015. The Technical Preview requires users to register with the Windows Insider Program, which allows users to submit their own feedback about the operating system... but is Microsoft collecting more than what you think you're submitting? "I always feel like somebody's watching me"
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Quote: Doctor Web's security experts researched several new threats to Mac OS X. One of them turned out to be a complex multi-purpose backdoor that entered the virus database as Mac.BackDoor.iWorm. News.DrWeb.com[^]
Haven't seen this here, and it seems legit.
<Insert snappy quote about apples and worms> </Insert snappy quote about apples and worms>
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Reading through the online readme file for Visual Studio "14" CTP, I found a section in the German translation of the document about an undisclosed CTP4 release, including working download links. Looks like CTP4 is around the corner, I'd expect a public announcement soon.
Note: The section about CTP4 is not in the original English version of the KB article (link above), you have to view the German translation. The download links can be found under Auf dieser Seite + Visual Studio "14" CTP 4 (Version 14.0.22126.1.DP) Informationen + Weitere Informationen + Produkte in the article hierarchy. The ISO is, like all CTPs, in English language only.
According to the readme, there are improvements in ASP.NET and web tooling, CLR (a new version of the 64-bit JIT Compiler), Debugger, and XAML (the editor supports peek definition now).
Cheers!
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Looks like a killjoy found out and pulled all translations down. Anyway, the web doesn't forget, so here is what it looked like (Google Cache).
Update: Download links are down by now. I wonder why they cared to do it because I'd expect a public release within the next few days and only few people will be interested in the bits anyways.
modified 5-Oct-14 1:53am.
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The strictly typed, purely functional language is 'a Haskell for the JVM'. Do you ever think about how many non-Js there are on the JVM?
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In a recent article, Alex Payne, organizer of the Emerging Languages Camp, provides insight on how the language landscape has changed in the last five years and how it might change in future. "Tools make the man"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Tools make the man"
Yes, but what a man makes with his tools, that's a different story.
Marc
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Very true, but it doesn't look as good on a bumper sticker.
TTFN - Kent
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And when the man is a tool is a third.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ever try using a five-year-old PC to get anything done? That's because over time, the OS decays. "The ruins now worn away with age, yet still majestic in decay."
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I don't think that was the case with DOS. I expect that a 20-year-old PC with DOS would still work just as well as it did.
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Decay? Is that actually spelled, r-e-g-i-s-t-r-y, maybe? Aka single point of failure - enormous system database that is all gunked up.
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newton.saber wrote: Is that actually spelled, r-e-g-i-s-t-r-y, maybe? Aka single point of failure - enormous system database that is all gunked up.
Why, whatever do you mean??? It's simply a NoSQL document style key-value pair database, after all!
Marc
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Will Windows address the operating system's 10 biggest weakness's?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Quote: "The ruins now worn away with age, yet still majestic in decay."
Didn't Homer say that originally? ...and I don't mean Homer Simpson; doh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If they fix it, people will stop buying new versions.
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Remember that incredibly stupid thing you did a decade or two ago? You wouldn't want to live it down every day. Neither should the Internet. "All right, mistakes were made."
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