After I printed a weblog post last week about Microsoft;s shift in its Silverlight technique (depending on an interview I did at the Expert Developers Conference with Server and Equipment President Bob Muglia),
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Office 2010 Activation Key, in this case Windows Phones and embedded devices, not slates/tablets).Muglia also stated, as I blogged final week, that Microsoft no longer considers Silverlight as the best way to install a single runtime on all devices. For that, Microsoft is planning to rely on HTML. From today;s post:“Lastly, there has been massive growth in the breadth and diversity of devices made by a wide variety of vendors providing both open and closed systems. When we started Silverlight, the quantity of unique/different Internet-connected devices while in the world was relatively small, and our goal was to provide the most consistent, richest experience across those devices. But the world has changed. As a result, getting a single runtime implementation installed on every potential device is practically impossible. We think HTML will provide the broadest, cross-platform reach across all these devices. At Microsoft,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, we’re committed to building the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 for devices running Windows, and in the PDC, we showed the amazing progress we’re making on this with IE 9.”What does this mean to folks who had been betting on Silverlight as Microsoft;s Web design/development platform? That;s not fairly as clear.Will Microsoft be spending energy to port Silverlight to new platforms like Android, as was originally promised and assumed? Will Silverlight ever be available on Apple;s iOS? Will Microsoft try to do what Adobe is and somehow provide a Silverlight-to-HTML conversion tool? Will Microsoft be introducing any new development resources specifically for HTML and if so, when? No word on any of those questions (so far).What other questions about Silverlight;s future do you still have immediately after reading Muglia;s update today?