I do not have it on the PC and Windows Update, through which Silverlight has previously been released, also does not offer it to me.Not so according to Hotmail/Outlook, at least. Since this happened before Windows 10 got released, it is likely that Silverlight does not work on Windows 10. Microsoft has already announced EOL for Silverlight and it only fixes bugs up to then. I just wonder why CESM is being developed with a very rare, dying, unused technology that has little support and development, while new Open Web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 have been gaining popularity and strength, even if we want to avoid Adobe Flash.If I remember correctly, Silverlight is dead. It’s unlikely that anyone will miss Silverlight, let alone Moonlight. And Microsoft added artificial restrictions to Silverlight that made it useless for desktop programming.“ Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did not become the must-have technology that I thought would have to become.

The CTO of Mono development company Xamarin, Miguel de Icaza, explained the reasoning further in an interview with :.

Putting developer time, resource and money into providing access to a fading, irrelevant web technology makes no sense. With such poor adoption for the official version it makes the demise of Moonlight less surprising. Wikipedia reports that, as of August 2011, less than 0.3% of websites make use of the technology, compared to Adobe’s Flash 23%. Once touted as a rival for Adobe’s Flash, Silverlight is in danger of being canned itself. Moonlight logoThe project, created in 2009, provided Linux users with a means to accessing websites and web content created using Silverlight. Moonlight, the third-party open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin, has been discontinued due to a lack of demand. Linux Silverlight Plugin Moonlight ‘Abandoned’ I have read today this interesting article about the gradual dying of “Silverlight” aka “Microsoft Flash”, it’s linux implementation/clone “Moonlight” is already dead.

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