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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 The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have you noticed Silverlight hasn't even had the same security concerns and exploits as Flash?

      You have to be fair; noone will exploit a plugin nobody has installed or uses.

    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 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.

  2. Re:Netflix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    So that I can use it on linux?