Acronym mix-up.
Looks like the acronym XAML is getting at least one reporter confused. Here's an article that discusses Microsoft's new Flash killer - code named Sparkle - still in development in Longhorn. Sparkle is going to use a new markup language called XAML. The reporter, however, thinks XAML stands for Transaction Authority Markup Language. What??? What does Flash-like graphics have to do with transactions? Nothing...
http://www.sys-con.com/Dotnet/article.cfm?id=450
What's happening is Microsoft created a "so called" new acronym called XAML, to stand for eXtensible Application Markup Language. This is what Sparkle is based on. It turns out that XAML also stands for Transaction Authorigy Markup Language - which is a different markup language alltogether, created as a precursor to BTP and BPEL. Why did this catch my eye? Because I was the one who threw together the original XAML acronym about 3 years ago. When I saw the article above that associated the old XAML with MS's Sparkle, I thought "what?".
Anyway - check out Adam Bosworth's blog - because the confusion seems to be seeping around there too.
http://www.adambosworth.net/
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