>Silverlight is now a developer tool for WP7, not THE solution for crossplatform development.
>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834

Oh, boy. This sounds so, so, oh so familiar. I think the entire Microsoft organization has a severe case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and hence they can't stay focused on any one thing long enough to make it perfect. Or if they do, they usually kill it anyways, sometimes at the height of perfection.

The idea of demoting SL to a Windows 7 development tool is absurd, considering how much work has gone into making it a great cross-platform web and desktop development tool. Maybe something got lost in translation in that article. Maybe I'm an eternal optimist.