[micheljansen]

Big question is: will Silverlight run on websites not whitelisted by Microsoft? Otherwise it's a dirty trick.

[isani]

No, Silverlight doesn't run on IE10 Metro. I just tested that it doesn't run on an arbitrary site, and I don't think it's possible to even whitelist it.

[manojlds]

Silverlight is more dead than Flash and MS killed itby alienating Silverlight developers.

[zapdrive]

The only thing keeping silverlight alive is Netflix. I wonder why they use it in first place.

[ttrashh]

DRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework

[46Bit]

I have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.

[adrr]

Silverlight can enforce protected streams to the output devices. I couldn't play netflix streaming movies on my old monitor since it didn't support HDCP.

[aidos]

They use it for the DRM. In their case it's a necessary evil.

[rythie]

Some sort of deal with Microsoft I would assume.

[fakeer]

.NET.

Almost everybody uses some version of Windows or other and so .NET is there more or less.

[cooldeal]

No, they had to kill it because the iPad wouldn't run browser plugins. They then transitioned to a plugin free HTML5 mobile web to help all developers.