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Not sure why this is news now; Microsoft announced this back when Silverlight 5 was first supported back in December of 2011. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Mi
by j_s 14y ago
Not sure why this is news now; Microsoft announced this back when Silverlight 5 was first supported back in December of 2011.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Microsoft-support-Silverlight-5-until-124074.S.84758245 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Microsoft-support-Silverlight...
> it actually says 2021 or the support lifecycle of each of the supported
> browsers, whichever is shorter. When IE 9 is no longer supported you can
> pretty much consider Silverlight unsupported as well.
... though technically there are +'s next to the alternative browsers (Firefox 3.6+, Safari 4+, Chrome 12+) so there's plenty of wiggle room left for interpretation.
- IvyMike 14y agoThe reason it's being talked about is because Netflix's recent transition plan is a milestone--the only Silverlight application I knowingly use is finally going away.