Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release

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Post by exDM69 » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

Interesting announcements from Adobe and Microsoft, one after another.

Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release
theverge.com

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Post by jrydberg » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:20 PM UTC

I wonder what will happen to Microsoft Smooth Streaming if this happens.

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Post by bchjam » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:24 PM UTC

the Mary Jo Foley article this one loosely references is here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-there-be-a-silverli...

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Post by tcarnell » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:30 PM UTC

they should have probably made this decision before starting the first release!

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Post by joelthelion » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:32 PM UTC

Good riddance.

And once again, all the companies that decided to rely on a proprietary, non standard technology are going to get bitten.

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Post by ypcxz » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:32 PM UTC

jrydberg wrote: post #2

I wonder what will happen to Microsoft Smooth Streaming if this happens.

I wonder why isn't W3C / Google / whoever doing more to bring / standardize proper video streaming support to HTML5. I mean the HTTP progressive download support e.g. in Chrome is almost like streaming, but it's not the same.

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Post by nailer » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:36 PM UTC

Microsoft's IE9 product lead, said - without even saying that it was confidential or not to repeat - 'Silverlight is dead, I give it six months tops' at OnGameStart a couple of months ago. I believe him.

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:50 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #7

Microsoft's IE9 product lead, said - without even saying that it was confidential or not to repeat - 'Silverlight is dead, I give it six months tops' at OnGameStart a couple of months ago. I believe him.

Just the web plugin. No evidence of it going away on WP7 or Windows 8.

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Post by DrJokepu » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC

joelthelion wrote: post #5

Good riddance. And once again, all the companies that decided to rely on a proprietary, non standard technology are going to get bitten.

In the meantime, there's no really reliable standard, cross-platform and cross-browser way to play back audio or video in the browser as major browser vendors still cannot agree on a single codec that would work everywhere.

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Post by hkarthik » Wed, Nov 09, 2011, 2:03 PM UTC

I'm curious what Netflix has in the works to move off of Silverlight. I remember reading that their biggest problem with HTML5 players was the lack of good DRM options to please the studios.