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gtirloni on Feb 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Still Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecos...

Agreed. 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-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 on Feb 26, 2014 [–]

That 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/

They haven't tweeted for 3 months - https://twitter.com/silverlight

Perhaps they're all working really hard on Silverlight 6...

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