MS developed MVC due to feedback from devs. The complaints were that Ruby and MVC were much easier to use than ASP.NET web forms. I haven't done much web work, but am about to start on my first MVC app.

Nothing to stop you from developing SIlverlight. It'll be a valid web tool for sometime.

>So does anyone know what Microsoft's strategy is for software developers?
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>I'm supposed to take their exam 70-515 "Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4" to keep up my Partner qualifications. The exam prep concentrates on telling you that everything you used in ASP.NET was wrong - now you're supposed to go completely client side with MVC and JSON and other drivel in order to make development far more difficult.
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>Basically what that says to me is that Microsoft is abandoning ASP.NET while trying to act like it isn't.
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>Now they are demoting silverlight (the wonder technology buzz of the last couple of years). I was just starting to build some apps in Silverlight (complete PITA but that was supposed to be the future).
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>I'm real close to telling Microsoft to shove it, dropping our Certified Partner status, and heading for something more stable like Java or Perl or something.