Dutch government hands over education's keys to Microsoft
Stefano Maffulli
smaffulli at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 15:29:24 UTC 2011
2011/11/7 Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org>
> * simo <idra at 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
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