> It wouldn't surprise me if MS dropped the Silverlight browser plugin all together It would surpise me if they dropped it any time soon. MS is big on backward

> It wouldn't surprise me if MS dropped the Silverlight browser plugin all together It would surpise me if they dropped it any time soon. MS is big on backward compatibility. Even if a MS technology is "dead" and "abandoned", that just means that there aren't any new versions, but exisiting versions keep working for quite a while.