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> Even Microsoft, the technology's creator, sees no future in [Silverlight] I don't understand the basis for making such a statement. The last Silverlight rele
by staticshock 13y ago
> Even Microsoft, the technology's creator, sees no future in [Silverlight]
I don't understand the basis for making such a statement. The last Silverlight release is not very old; the linked "lifecycle search" lists mainstream support for the latest version of Silverlight until 2021; there are no announcement that the product is being abandoned. Is it just hyperbole?
- vidarh 13y agoThey're providing security fixes and support for a long time, but every indication is that there will be no further feature upgrades, which for all intents and purposes means that it is dead in the water other than for very limited uses like DRM'd video playback.
- gtirloni 13y agoAgreed. Also, if rumors are to be trusted, there will be a new release of Silverlight: http://www.zdnet.com/a-new-year-a-new-microsoft-roadmap-stepping-up-the-delivery-pace-7000009402/ http://www.zdnet.com/a-new-year-a-new-microsoft-roadmap-step... I think people are overreacting to the fact that Microsoft improved support for HTML5+JS in Win8 apps, WP8, etc, and are assuming they will let all other technologies die. Even if true, how long of a death it will be? People have also assumed Flash is completely dead as of _now_ since HTML5+JS is getting increased attention. Then putting Silverlight in the same position and calling it a day. IMHO, these technologies will stay with us for a while.
- edent 13y agoThat article is from January 2013. Referencing a document from 2012. Their blog hasn't been updated in 2 years - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlight/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlight/ They haven't tweeted for 3 months - https://twitter.com/silverlight https://twitter.com/silverlight Perhaps they're all working really hard on Silverlight 6...