● 12.13.12

●● Silverlight Rumoured to be Taking Silverlight-based Sites Down With It

Posted in Microsoft at 9:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: The Silverlight apocalypse which we predicted seems imminent

A Register contributor and seemingly full-time Microsoft booster who promotes Silverlight, Moonlight, Mono, etc. is warning people that Microsoft may be breaking the Web again:

Microsoft Silverlight: shattered into a million broken urlsThere has been some Twitter chatter about the closure of silverlight.net, Microsoft’s official site for its lightweight .NET client platform. multimedia player and browser plug-in.

Did we or did we not warn about this half a decade ago? When it stops making a profit or never succeeds at breaking even at the very least it no longer makes sense to maintain it. Remember Zune?

Leave the Web in the hands of W3C and abolish proprietary plugins. All of them. █

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