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Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-not-good dept.

mikejuk writes "Microsoft's SkyDrive, a web service that provides cloud storage for end user files, has just acquired a revamped user interface — and it is HTML5 based. Yes, another Microsoft website has dropped Silverlight. How can Microsoft expect independent developers to base their future on Silverlight when Microsoft itself is abandoning it like a sinking ship? Whatever happened to 'eating your own dog food'? It seems that now Microsoft would rather eat dog food made elsewhere..."

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  1. MS hate by cgeys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So Microsoft starts using standards compliant HTML5 instead of Silverlight on their sites and you bash them for it? Seriously?

    And regardless, HTML5 was nowhere to be seen when Silverlight came out. It was needed back then, if only as a competitor for Flash. Have you noticed Silverlight hasn't even had the same security concerns and exploits as Flash?

    This is a good thing from Microsoft, not bad. Stop bashing them for everything they do, even if its a good thing.

    1. Re:MS hate by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is a perfect example of "damned if they do, damned if they don't".

      Oh, and typical Slashdot bullshit :)

    2. Re:MS hate by ron_ivi · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > So Microsoft starts using standards compliant HTML5 instead of Silverlight on their sites and you bash them for it? Seriously?

      No, we bash them for pushing one technology on their customers for the sake of getting them locked in, while internally they know those technologies suck and they use better stuff for themselves. The way Bing uses Hadoop is another example. And the way they're soon to be a big postgres shop (skype) yet another.

      They know what the right technologies are. But they keep selling their developers on other stuff.

    3. Re:MS hate by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How is this an example of "damned if they do, damned if they don't"? Microsoft made Silverlight, pushed a lot of sites to use it at the displeasure of many (Netflix), now they are dropping support?

      This is rather an example of MS making crap, MS pushing crap, and MS not being able to support their own crap, but still wanting everyone to use it. That's not damned if you do or don't, that's just everyone saying "It sucks, stop pushing it when you can't even use it."

      I.E. - Windows Vista

      --
      I8-D
    4. Re:MS hate by Fjandr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Captive audience for PC users. It made their service worse, an I stopped using it on a PC unless I had no other choice.

      I will rejoice when Silverlight dies the death it deserves.

    5. Re:MS hate by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Investing in MS technologies has always been foolhardy. This is just one more episode in a long history of them pulling the rug from beneath their customers' feet in order to make them buy yet another full line of "new" software development tools. It has happened before, it will happen again. It's a suckers' game, and it's baffling how so many people fall into it again and again, especially in the presence of a large, diverse and stable palette of FOSS development tools that evolve in a generally orderly and predictable fashion. Has this ever happened to Perl, Python, PHP, or Ruby developers?.

    6. Re:MS hate by dhavleak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Microsoft made Silverlight, pushed a lot of sites to use it at the displeasure of many (Netflix), now they are dropping support?

      1. How did Microsoft "push" Netflix?
      2. When did Microsoft "drop support" for Silverlight?