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