Moving to HTML5 Premium Media

Re:Moving to HTML5 Premium Media by justwannasing on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:08AM (#9824990)

I would have titled it, "Microsoft finally dumps Silverlight" as I said it would five years ago or more.

I almost feel sorry for all those Silverlight developers out there who dedicated a lot of time to this but it happened to me 11 years ago with other Microsoft tech.

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Re:Moving to HTML5 Premium Media by lstamour on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:39AM (#9825151)

Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2012, some devs predicted it in 2011, Netflix announced dropping it in 2013. So there aren't many Silverlight developers caught unaware now... and Microsoft has said Silverlight will be supported for 10 years, back then.

This page is more about what Microsoft hopes Netflix and others will do to support Windows 10 than anything on Silverlight.

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Re:Moving to HTML5 Premium Media by s_kilk on Friday July 03, 2015 @10:09AM (#9825663)

>> I almost feel sorry for all those Silverlight developers out there who dedicated a lot of time to this

Same. My first job out of Uni was at a Windows shop, developing Silverlight and ASP "Line of Business" apps. Many of the devs there were fully bought-in to the MS ecosystem, and wouldn't hear of any doubts or worries over the future of their stack.

Glad I got out of that gig when I did.

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