The writing has been on the wall for some time. Microsoft Silverlight was nothing more than a reactive response to Adobe's Flash. As Flash will ultimately go, Silverlight already has. Get over it! We no longer use Morse code either.
Microsoft, in order to have any place in the evolving "cloud based" Internet, have more or less left Silverlight for dead as their latest OS Microsoft 8 is presented to developers.
The frustrated pro Silverlight Developers, flooded and flamed MSFT Silverlight forums.
I can appreciate the frustration that these developers are experiencing but it's over boys and girls. Time to move on and realize that the future is HTML5.
This also means Flash is history. Although Adobe is putting up a good fight, they cannot stave off the inevitable memetic transformation that is video without plugins.
