Silverlight's death was announced 2 years ago already, in some sort of dev conference.

This caught my attention even more:

<b>The Death of the PC</b>

The days of paying for costly software upgrades are numbered.
The PC will soon be obsolete.
And BusinessWeek reports 70% of Americans are already using the technology that will replace it.
Merrill Lynch calls it "a $160 billion opportunity."
Computing giants including IBM, Yahoo!, and Amazon are racing to be the first to cash in on this PC-killing revolution.

>Netflix dropping Silverlight, thought it is intersting they making the move now. I just don't understand how MSFT could spend so much money and development on something, then drop it so quickly which causes other companies to drop it. How long did it last before they announced they were droping it.... perhaps 2 years? This link is not from a tech article, but from an "so so" investing site.
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>http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/15/netflix-to-drop-microsoft-silverlight.aspx