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The future of Silverlight, starts now?

Microsoft officially released Silverlight 5 beta this past week at their Silverlight Firestarter event. But what does this mean for developers. Is Microsoft going to continue moving forward with the Flash killer, or will HTML 5 dominate. Its not likely that anyone at the event left there with a clear understanding of where Microsoft will […]

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Dec 6, 2010
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Microsoft officially released Silverlight 5 beta this past week at their Silverlight Firestarter event. But what does this mean for developers. Is Microsoft going to continue moving forward with the Flash killer, or will HTML 5 dominate. Its not likely that anyone at the event left there with a clear understanding of where Microsoft will be heading in the future with this platform.

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