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Silverlight Reality Log

(Also see Moonlight)

This page is a central place about posts regarding Silverlight, which this site has covered since 2007.

2012

  • Silverlight Rumoured to be Taking Silverlight-based Sites Down With It


  • 2011

  • Windows Phone 7 Will Die With Silverlight
  • British Parliament to Reduce Dependence on Microsoft While Facebook Increases It


  • 2010

  • Netflix Considers Dumping Silverlight
  • Microsoft Staff: “I Think What We Are Really Seeing is a Company as Large as Microsoft in Chaos.”
  • Miguel de Icaza Was Wrong About Silverlight and .NET
  • Microsoft Silver Lie is Virtually Dead. Is Moon Lie Dead Too?
  • The Quiet Web Failures at Microsoft: Silverlight and Azure
  • Is Microsoft/Novell’s Moonlight Dead Now?
  • Silverlight is Dying Not Just Because of HTML 5 But Because of Adobe Trash Too
  • “Talk for Cloudconf Got Refused Because Microsoft Gets to Approve Every Speaker”
  • Windows Presentation Foundation is Dying/Dead, Silverlight Might be Too, So Microsoft Tries to Bastardise HTML5
  • Microsoft Does Not Rebut Claims of Silverlight Demise, Messengers Attacked Though
  • Is Silverlight Unofficially Dead Now?
  • To Microsoft, Silverlight is Not Moonlight and the World is x86 Binary
  • Silverlight is Marginalised, Even MSNBC (Microsoft-NBC) Rejects It
  • Journey With Novell/Microsoft Moonlight (and How it Broke Firefox While Microsoft Keeps Breaking Antitrust Law)
  • Novell is Still Promoting Microsoft SharePoint and Silverlight
  • Locked Out of Mono Blogs, by Silverlight


  • 2009



  • Salivating Over Silverlight
  • Novell’s Moonlight Becomes Less Relevant as Silverlight Gets Dumped Again
  • Microsoft Exploits Feynman Lectures to Spread Lock-in, Does the Same in HPC
  • New York Times — Just Like National Baseball — Dumps Microsoft Silverlight
  • Silver Lie: The New Music DRM
  • Silverlight/Microsoft Required for Public Procurement in Portugal


  • 2008

  • Is Silverlight About ‘Killing’ GNU/Linux?
  • There is No “Silverlight for Linux”
  • Microsoft is Starting to Dump Silverlight (Phased Out of Microsoft Services)
  • The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
  • Media Reality Check: Microsoft Silverlight a Big Programming Scam
  • Ryanair is Closing the Web with Microsoft Silverlight
  • Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono
  • Stand Up Against Silverlight, Microsoft’s Anti-competitive Weapon
  • GNU/Linux Users Locked Out of Olympics, Need Silverlight 2.0
  • Making Silverlight a Trojan Horse and Anti-competitive Tool
  • Silverlight and Microsoft’s ‘Open’ Status Still Very Low, Indicate Studies
  • Silverblight (sic) Boosters on Microsoft’s Payroll
  • XAML/Silverlight and the Microsoft Software Patent Play
  • Nokia and Finland: A Mystery Behind OOXML and Silverlight
  • eWeek: “Salesforce Says No to Silverlight”
  • Microsoft Redefines “Cross-platform”: Mac + Win32
  • Microsoft HealthVault: Death by Silverlight
  • New Lock-ins Built Around Silverlight, OOXML, SharePoint and More
  • Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents
  • Watch Out. Moonlight/Silverlight Knock on Your Door. All Your Media Mustn’t Belongs to Microsoft.
  • Moonlight is Not Silverlight, Silverlight is Not Flash
  • Microsoft Gives GNU/Linux the Finger on Valentine’s, Using Silverlight
  • Mozilla Firefox Meets Silverlight and Novell’s Impact on This Web Hijack
  • Food for Thought: How Proprietary Silverlight and OOXML Stifle or Eliminate Open Access
  • Microsoft’s Latest: Want Olympics on Linux? Get Mono (and Pay ‘Patent Tax’)
  • Silverlight’s Linux Exclusion: Thy Name is Popfly (and More to Come) (Updated)


  • 2007

  • Silverlight (and Moonlight/Mono, by Association) Becomes Part of the Antitrust Debate