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It's also worth noting that Guthrie is, as of earlier this year, focusing on Windows Azure app development and not leading the Silverlight team. In his responses to Webcast participants' questions about the future of Silverlight, Guthrie didn't mention anything about Silverlight being continued beyond Silverlight 5 or provide any indication there would be anything coming beyond Silverlight 5.Īs many will be quick to note, Guthrie's decision not to talk about the future beyond Silverlight 5 may simply be due to Microsoft's increasing information lockdown on futures and roadmaps. Guthrie also said during the same Webcast that Microsoft was close to shipping Silverlight on "other devices" (meaning the Xbox 360, I'm assuming). (I'm hearing the actual RTM date could be this week, in fact.) In an October 26 Webcast with the Linked.Net user group, Scott Guthrie said that Silverlight 5 would ship "next month," meaning November. There is some anecdotal evidence suggesting Silverlight 5 may be the end of the road - beyond the continued reassignments and/or defections of many at Microsoft formerly working on Silverlight and the major reorg affecting the Silverlight team earlier this year. I asked again on November 8 to see if the Softies would say anything at all regarding the company's post-Silverlight 5 plans and was told by a spokesperson that the company had "nothing to share at this time regarding exact timing, future releases or support." Microsoft officials are remaining mum about whether there will be any more Silverlight releases after version 5. When I wrote about Microsoft's morphing Silverlight strategy back in the fall of 2010, I noted that company officials only committed to one more release after Silverlight 4 and said nothing more about the Silverlight platform's longer-term future. Instead, Microsoft currently positions Silverlight as a tool for creating rich media, line-of-business and smartphone apps. In fact, I'm frequently cited as the source of that prognostication, in spite of the fact that all I've actually reported is that Microsoft's strategy with Silverlight shifted and that Silverlight is no longer Microsoft's cross-platform runtime solution. Yes, I know - everyone's been rushing to proclaim Silverlight dead for more than a year now.
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( Silverlight 4 supports Windows and Mac OS X and the IE, Chrome and Safari browsers.) One of my contacts said he believed that the final version of Silverlight 5 may only work with Internet Explorer on Windows and won't work on Mac OS platforms or with other browsers at all.
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Free support for Silverlight 3 ended in April 2011.) According to the page, Microsoft must give developers and customers a year heads-up before ending support for any given Silverlight version.
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(There's no end date yet on Microsoft's lifecycle page for free support for Silverlight for Silverlight 4. They said they are unsure whether there will be any service packs for it, and they are also not clear on how long Silverlight 5 will be supported by Microsoft.
Several of my customer and partner contacts have told me they have heard from their own Microsoft sources over the past couple of weeks that Silverlight 5 is the last version of Silverlight that Microsoft will release.
Silverlight 5, the most recent - and possibly last - version of Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in, is poised to be released to manufacturing (RTM) before the end of November.
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