Mike Downey to Join Microsoft Silverlight Team
August 6th, 2009 by 
Adrian Parr
Last week Mike Downey announced that he has taken a new job with the Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism team for Silverlight. Those of you that have been in the Flash world for a while will know that Mike was Flash’s senior product manager for a number of years. He has always been a great advocate of Flash, Interactive Media and RIAs. His departure from Adobe at the end of 2008 came as something of a shock and I was sure that we hadn’t seen the last of him. I think Microsoft have made a shrewd move employing the talents of Mike and I wish him well with his new position. The competition from Silverlight can only be a good thing for the Flash Platform and the RIA industry as a whole.
You can follow him on Twitter here.
Posted in Adobe, Flash, Silverlight | 
August 10th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Do you have Silverlight installed on your machine?
August 10th, 2009 at 10:06 am
@Sameer: Yes, but only to check out what it can do and keep up-to-date with what other people are doing with it. I am an Adobe supporter at heart.