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I seriously can't remember any (incredibly) widespread use of Silverlight – could you elaborate? The only instance I noticed it was with a video streaming platf
by elaus 8y ago
I seriously can't remember any (incredibly) widespread use of Silverlight – could you elaborate? The only instance I noticed it was with a video streaming platform.
- hiram112 8y agoI don't think Silverlight had a mass amount of public use (Flash and Applets were still available at the time - so there was no pressing need). But MS really did earn a lot of bad will from their dev community who had been pushed to learn yet another framework which ended up dead. I rarely even use my PC anymore. I basically then it on once a month to download the gigs of updates. It's interesting that Silverlight still listed at the top of optional updates. There must be a few businesses and schools who bought into the hype and built their internal app on SL.
- gpvos 8y agoMy previous employer sells a legal review & production solution with a Silverlight UI. I left half a year ago, but if all is well they have just finished reimplementing it in Angular.
- krylon 8y agoThe management console of the AV software we use at work is built in Silverlight, but that is about the only instance of Silverlight I have ever seen.
- jrs95 8y agoBiggest use of it that I'm aware of was Netflix. This was really just done for DRM reasons.
- oh-kumudo 8y agoSilverlight is used simply because MSFT grant the use of their DRM license, unlike Adobe at the time.