Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted
“Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said. Silverlight also has some “sweet spots” in media and line-of-business applications, he said.
But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me.
Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.
Few weeks ago I was listening to an interview with an author of browser based audio editor, who decided to implement his project in Silverlight. While he got some valid technical points concerns about HTML5 performance, betting on proprietary technology that depends totally on some company's politics and CTO's mood sounds like a much worse idea. Here's why.
