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		Ruudjah on March 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm Regretting Going WP7 Html5 is the new app platform. Microsoft trying to push silverlight is really just another way of their triple E strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). In this case, embracing web apps, extending it by their .NET platform, then trying to extinguish html5 using Silverlight. This time, it won't be so easy as IE6: Google bets on html5, Apple (although somehwat), and they both have very good browsers already. Nice try MSFT.

regularfry on March 26, 2011 [–]

It really is a shame. The guts of Silverlight are really nice, and the dev tools are well above par.

It's just a shame it's shackled to Microsoft's marketing machine.

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