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d2zo
5494 days ago
I would've thought that the widget/tile implementation technology would be Silverlight, not HTML5/Javascript. Didn't we also see a playing down of Silverlight at MIX11? Has Silverlight fallen out of favor?
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ams6110
5494 days ago
Silverlight is dead, Jim
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malnourish
5494 days ago
Netflix still uses Silverlight, correct?
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aberkowitz
5494 days ago
Netflix uses Silverlight because it supports DRM.
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stonemetal
5494 days ago
It is the only way to get an app on their phone that doesn't use their game development APIs. So it might be dead on the web, but it isn't dead yet.
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