Perhaps you can shed a little light on this for me, how can a company like Microsoft spend so much time and resources on something like Silverlight and then not continue with it.... I believe its only been out for a handful of years.

>Silverlight is in a state much like Visual FoxPro was after VFP 8.0 shipped - it's there if you want it, it's not strategic, and you won't be told to move away from it to avoid angering too many developers at once. I expect the good parts of Silverlight development will morph into Microsoft's dev platform for web (HTML5/JS/CSS) dev/tools. We will learn the details of the technology roadmap from the Build conference in September, should be interesting.
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