Future of Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 – what now?

You’ve all heard the news – Microsoft is „shifting its Silverlight strategy“ and going full forward to embrace HTML 5 as its cross-browser cross-platform solution. Coupled with IE9, it makes lot of sense. But what about Silverlight 5 and Silverlight in general now? Same question can be asked regarding Adobe’s Flash.
PDC 2010, HTML 5 and Bob Muglia

If you’ve got the chance to look at Microsoft’s PDC conference (especially the Keynote) with Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia – you could hear HTML 5, HTML 5, HTML 5. Though, this time Steve has spared us from his monkey dance (remember “Developers, developers, developers!” chant?) – he was damn close to start chanting abouth HTML 5. Yup – you heard it well – HTML 5. Not a single relevant word about Silverlight 5.
Several weeks ago I was talking to several Microsoft employees who were discussing Silverlight 4.5 and Silverlight 5 and possible announcements of those on the PDC. Following the Microsoft’s tradition, I was also waiting for announcement regarding Silverlight 5.
Today I know that those Microsoft employees were just speculating without knowing any real facts. Being bound by NDAs I have with Microsoft, I was keeping my mouth shut. Today, it’s clear – Microsoft is shifting its strategy towards HTML 5 for web solutions.

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