I would like to know what level of commitment Microsoft is making towards maintaining Silverlight as a viable technology, rather than surrendering to the alternatives of Flash and HTML5. One does not have to look very deep into the assortment of Microsoft web sites to find no Silverlight support at all, and primarily Flash-only content.
I am distressed when visiting msn.com, Bing.com, and Office.microsoft.com and getting the following message:
Please install the latest version of the free Adobe Flash Player. Download now.
For help with Flash, see Adobe's Flash Player Support page.
The Office site has improved in recent times, but it seems that the cool people at Microsoft know something about the pending future of Silverlight that the rest of us don't want to talk about. Microsoft has a history of abusing and abandoning its technology early adopters, and I fear that Silverlight is doomed to go the way of Liquid Motion and Microsoft Barney. I hope that this is not the case.