Interesting. MSFT has got a rather inconsistent message going, then. I
know I've read a piece somewhere that said they were deprecating it.

And we all know how tech writers always get their facts straight...

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:24, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not really (killing Silverlight).
> Or at least that's my understanding from a vendor who is providing a service
> based on Silverlight.
> As far as I can tell, they're just not trying to make it a substitute for
> Flash.
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:01, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> It makes add-ons unavailable to IE in the 'metro' mode.  It does allow
>> >> them
>> >> when you are launch IE from the desktop view.
>> >
>> >  Still, if Metro becomes the success that Microsoft obviously hopes
>> > it does, that amounts to much the same thing.
>> >
>> >  Of course, I have to ask: Is Silverlight also unavailable in Metro IE?
>> >
>> > -- Ben
>>
>> Why would it be? They're MSFT is killing Silverlight in favor of
>> HTML5, aren't they?
>>
>> Kurt
>>
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