>>>Silverlight is now a developer tool for WP7, not THE solution for crossplatform development.
>>>3http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/784
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>Perhaps we could ask the big question. How much can we, as developers, trust Microsoft? I mean they launch something and with their marketing make you believe that their newest discovery is the best thing since sliced bread. And they know that their followers won't mind following them because.... hey they must be right again. The sad part is that to master their new THING it takes a while. I wonder how many developers really thought that Silverlight would be it. A real cross-browser solution.
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>Unless that decision to make silverlight proprietary to the W7 phone is a cheap way to force Silverlight developers to concentrate on the W7 Phone. What a nice way to get them as hostages.

Interesting take on a potentially Devious & Evil Plan. Given what I know about W7P development, and it is merely hearsay, Silverlight wouldn't be enough to drag me into that swamp.