[cwbrandsma]

On WinMo 6, I think you are skipping over the history with that one. When it was released (WinMo 2,3,4,5,6,6.5) the hardware was too expensive for the consumer market, so it was sold to commercial consumers. They biggest concern for them was business apps, photos, gps, and --wait for it-- barcode scanners. The types that could be used from 30 ft away.

For that industry, WinMob was much better than the competition (this is before the IPhone/Android was released). There were lots of models, multiple configurations, and some of them even made phone calls.

Since then, smart phones hit the consumer market, the app needs have change (consumers don't need lazer enabled barcode scanners and multiple gps hardware configurations). But, WinMob 7 doesn't replace WinMob 6, because of the complete lack of external hardware drivers. IPhone really doesn't fill that gap either. Just Android.

And, Silverlight (and Flash) are being discontinued as Web platform(s). It still exists for development on other systems. But it could be argued it is just WPF at that point.