>The blog post Hank linked to implied Silverlight is on the chopping block along with WPF. The last I knew the two were supposedly going to converge, one for the web and one for the desktop. It makes you a little dizzy sometimes trying to keep up.


Nope... the battle now is between SL and Html5..... but SL has much more power and flexibility especially for LOB apps. SL can run in the browser as well as the desktop. WPF's browser apps are horrible. SL is lightweight, cross browser, desktop compatible and will be the winner for the near future. I aso predicted (and have a bet with the local MS Developer Evangelist) that within 5 years, there will be no SL, ASP.Net, Lightswitch, etc.... there is a merging of technologies taking place and I believe the ultimate inheritor will be a markup based, generated language that runs both on web and desktop and combines all these features into a single platform with no need for anything else.