Ah more vapourware.
It looks like Siverlight is a failure and even Microsoft themselves are abandoning it. Good, anyone who ties themselves into a proprietary product deserves to die because they're too short sighted to see things could change.
Lol.
It's clear that releasing something that can be developed with web technologies is one sure way to get thousands of developers on board - I made this point when Apples Dashboard widgets exploded. The same is the reason Firefox had thousands of extensions before every other browser.
Perhaps the striking thing is that it seems Microsoft has come to learn that there are at least some places where their proprietary technologies can not compete with what occurs when open web technologies are used instead. And these technologies are only getting stronger. They get stronger not even by being improved - most of their power is just in the numbers.
I presume their use of web technologies is going to press on the need for implementing modern web standards. It seems like they must have done an awful lot of work in this area - which is good, because if they don't, they will be left behind.
The battle of the web apps versus proprietary platforms is just about getting started. Microsoft don't need one more enemy in the battle for appshare. I'm glad they noticed.
