On a side note,I have read about the ethos at Microsoft that they have teams battle it out for technologies such as LinqToSQL and Entity framework etc.
Just been digging around and stumbled on this forum topic on Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/572877-Silverlight--HTML5-and-WPF Nothing more than some people stirring up the honeypot. -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 2:40 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Silverlight dead ? Microsoft is a very big company. Some people there prefer Silverlight, some prefer HTML5. There is no evidence that Silverlight is not being invested in going forward. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Richard Jones <rjones1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't want to start a flame war however I have been talking to some > fellow developers and they mentioned that Microsoft is preferring to > support HTML5 over silverlight. I think this is speculation to say the > least. Anyway, I don't get it, when Microsoft are about to release > Windows phone7 which uses Silverlight. > Can anyone anyone confirm this is the case? > Regards, > Richard