Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted'

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Microsoft might finally be realizing that Silverlight can't cover every platform, according to this conversation with Bob Muglia: '... when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, "our strategy has shifted," Muglia told [ZDNet]. Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. "But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple's) iOS platform," Muglia said.'"

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Re:no

[ArhcAngel]

TROLL? SERIOUSLY? damn there are some script kiddies with mod points.

Re:Realizing something else

[CAIMLAS]

To the exception of Netflix, I can think of no site I've been to which uses silverlight.

I've got a friend who, despite his worthwhile attributes, really likes Microsoft software (always has). He's mentioned that "does not work with silverlight" is a big game killer for him: apparently there are a number of sites and appliances which require silverlight plugins to use, which are important to his clients and their management. IMO, that's a huge fail.

Unfortunately, like IE6 is now, it looks like Silverlight will be another Y2K type problem for IT in a couple years, if MS starts avoiding Silverlight improvement. They had been pushing Sharepoint + silverlight for some time, even. People won't be able to upgrade their systems to Windows 2015 or whatever, because they need Silverlight. Shame...

(And people think IPv6 is a good idea. Hrmph. Lacking IPv6 support is an even lower level shortcoming than requiring IE, and there are many, many, many 'must have' appliances and devices which need to be gotten rid of before we can even consider rolling out IPv6. - Does your smartphone support IPv6?)