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•Avtex pays me to write code during the day. Then Ido it for free at night.• Built cool Silverlight stuff for 3M• Wrote some fun Silverlight projects• Now a web developer in Y with KnockoutJS@JudahGabriel

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I’ve met people in the mostremote areas of the world, livingin straw huts without electricityor running water, who havemobile phones. -Nat Friedman, co-founder of Xamarin

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Ive got a dual-core internetconnected super-computer in mypocket. -Scott Hanselman

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Silverlight can no longer be “WPF Everywhere”

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Q. What’s wrong with this app?

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A. Everything.

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Silverlight is a technology ofthe gaps. And those gaps areshrinking.

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Silverlight is a technology ofthe gaps. And those gaps areshrinking.

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Silverlight is a technology ofthe gaps. And those gaps areshrinking.™

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Silverlight is a technology ofthe gaps. And those gaps areshrinking.™ -Me, just now

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…and much more.

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For the future of the web, we needto get out of plugin prison. -Vic Gundotra, Google VP of Engineering, Google IOconference

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Plugins were created during thePC era – for PCs and mice. Themobile era is about low powerdevices, touch interfaces and openweb standards – all areas whereplugins fall short. -Steve Jobs, 2010

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HTML5 lets web developers createadvanced graphics, typography,animations and transitions withoutrelying on third party browser plug-ins. -Steve Jobs, 2010

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For the web to move forward, theMetro-style browser in Windows 8is as HTML5-only as possible, and isplug-in free. The experience thatplug-ins provide today is not a goodmatch with Metro style browsingand the modern HTML5 web. -Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft President

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We will no longer continue todevelop Flash Player in the browserto work with new mobile devices.This will allow us to increaseinvestment in HTML5, which isuniversally supported on majormobile devices. -Adobe press release, November 9th, 2011

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Key components that would haveallowed Silverlight to become a realcross-platform framework were cutfrom releases. Silverlights fate wassealed when they started supportingWindows-only features in theplugin. -Miguel deIcaza, founder of Mono and Moonlight

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Silverlight had a bright future, andthat it could turn to fill an importantvoid, not only for webdevelopment, but for desktopdevelopment in general. I am verysad that Microsoft strategy cut theair supply to Silverlight. -Miguel deIcaza, founder of Mono and Moonlight

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We’ve heard developers expressconcern about the long term futureof Silverlight for Windows Phone.Please don’t panic; WinRT inWindows 8 Phone can be viewed asa direct evolution from today’sSilverlight. -Larry Lieberman, Microsoft, Windows Phone Dev blog

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Stay in Microsoft land: Move to the web: WinRT HTML5 The death of web plug-ins

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Why KnockoutJS? It gives us things like:

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Try KnockoutJS for yourself, right in your web browser: learn.knockoutjs.com