The killing of Silverlight is a particularly accurate example, in that while Silverlight's end point adoption was never really there, the adaptive streaming was

The killing of Silverlight is a particularly accurate example, in that while Silverlight's end point adoption was never really there, the adaptive streaming was so much better than Adobe's that it should have been a home run. But that's definitely not the case; Adobe now owns the market (except Netflix) and anyone trying to work with Microsoft's has to figure things out without anyone at the company who knows how it works.