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In this post, Bob Muglia apologizes for the confusion that he caused with his interview about Silverlight during the PDC conference.

Source: Silverlight Team Blog

During the conference, I gave an interview where, among other things, I talked about the great work we’re doing with Silverlight – in particular, support for Windows Phone 7, which we featured heavily at the conference. The interview was accurately reported. I understand that what I said surprised people and caused controversy and confusion. As this certainly wasn’t my intent, I want to apologize for that. I’d like to use this post to expand on what I said, and talk about the very important role Silverlight has going forward.

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After the post “Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted” made on ZDNet.com, there was a panic online about the Microsoft strategy on Silverlight and lots of people continue to blog about that:

• Silverlight *versus* HTML5? Really? 
• Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight!
• Is Silverlight Dead? Answer is “No, don’t be panic” 
• And they lived happily ever after: Silverlight is here to stay (Part 2)
• Committed to Silverlight 

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In this show, Erik Mork talks about the Microsoft’s PDC Conference and the announcements that have been made there.

Source: Sparkling Client

Erik thought it was weird that there weren’t any *big* announcements at the conference. There were some Azure announcments, but they hardly seemed to justify the conference. This is just bizarre.

Microsoft didn’t talk about Silverlight on the desktop (they did talk a lot about Silverlight on the phone…), and the conclusion drawn was that Silverlight on the desktop is… ready for this? Dead. Or maybe not.

Here is the article of Mary Jo Foley that provoked so many discussions and reflections about the future of Silverlight.

Source: ZDNet

“Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said. Silverlight also has some “sweet spots” in media and line-of-business applications, he said.

But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me.

Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.

• Is Silverlight dead? Is WPF dead? Read what Denis Basaric thinks about that!
• Post-PDC HTML5 v. Silverlight Debate
• Silverlight will stay, don’t worry
• My position on the #Silverlight debate
• Few thoughts on PDC 2010 and the Silverlight destiny…
• Silverlight and HTML5 and Your Future

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Ronnie Saurenmann shares with us the last day and his closing notes of the PDC. Nice focused post with valuable information.

Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications - watch the PDC session by Jamie Cool

Developing for Microsoft Surface - see how you can create some cool stuffs for Microsoft Surface

"Alexandria" - a LOB framework for Silverlight and WPF. Now that rocks! "Shared business entities", a DataSource control, Wrapper around the Authentication & Membership module for ASP.NET, Page navigation model... and that's just a small part of the stuff that will be released. Can't wait for the first public release...