<div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/7 Matthias Kirschner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mk@fsfe.org">mk@fsfe.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

* simo <<a href="mailto:idra@samba.org">idra@samba.org</a>> [2011-11-07 09:23:04 -0500]:<br>
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> Wow, hugely smart move given Microsoft itself basically said Silverlight<br>
> is a dead platfrom ...<br>
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</div>Do you have a reference on that?<br></blockquote></div><br>Microsoft 
only said that its strategy 'shifted' to HTML5 only for web development,
 while SL will still be used in other cases. References:<br>
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<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834</a><br>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/silverlight-html5-and-microsofts-opaque-development-strategy.ars">http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/silverlight-html5-and-microsofts-opaque-development-strategy.ars</a><br>

<br>Is it dead? In my eyes it was never born but it's hard to sell this argument to a politician that just bought it.<br><br>/stef<br>