2011/11/7 Matthias Kirschner <mk@fsfe.org>
* simo <idra@samba.org> [2011-11-07 09:23:04 -0500]:

> Wow, hugely smart move given Microsoft itself basically said Silverlight
> is a dead platfrom ...

Do you have a reference on that?

Microsoft only said that its strategy 'shifted' to HTML5 only for web development, while SL will still be used in other cases. References:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/silverlight-html5-and-microsofts-opaque-development-strategy.ars

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.

/stef