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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. Re:MS hate by pandrijeczko · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow! Thanks for counting! But does that make you a stalker or a fan?

    Incidentally, I have no axe to grind - I just enjoy repeating that point over and over again because it always winds up the fanbois and one always bites - I believe the term is "shooting fish in a bucket".

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    Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.