Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight? No, No they haven't...
A very respected technology journal has reported the death of Silverlight in this article: InfoQ: Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins Of course, if you actually watch the keynote and read other BUILD conference information, Microsoft is doing no such thing. As a matter of fact microsoft has doubled down on Silverlight by not pushing Windows 8 to the phone level and sticking with windows phone 7. My initial take on this plugin-less Windows 8 Metro browser is that its microsoft's attempt at dealing with the performance issue Android is having with supporting plug-ins in the tablet space. Imagine not just flash, but a pdf, a VRML, an applet, a silverlight app all running in the same page, or in even mulitple tabs. Lets just say the browsing experience would probably be less than optimal (not to mention the ding in battery life). For those who want a clean browsing experience (basically the equivalent of turning off plug-ins in an android browser), a quick ...