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• Matthias Munzel commented  ·  December 3, 2010 11:08 a.m.  ·  Delete

  You´re right! If MS dosnt support multiplatform SL is dead. On WinCE 6 SL is a great feature. .NET is not importend on embedded platforms. Speed is everything.

• Mike Hole commented  ·  December 3, 2010 1:01 a.m.  ·  Delete

  With MS using the new catch phrase ‘To the cloud’ and saying things like ‘three screens and the cloud’. You would think that they would consider their cross device support even if those devices are all Microsoft based ones.

  We all can see that they have the cloud sussed with their Azure platform and services based offerings and this excites me greatly and makes me wish that I can start thinking about those three screens.

  So the third screen is my TV right? How do I get to use my TV as the third screen well that would be with my Xbox surely. But do I really have to use XNA to realise this dream especially since I have all my design assets within XAML right now.

  There have been all sorts of rumours regarding SL on the Xbox without any sort of foundation or demonstration from MS.

  It is about time they made things clear so that they can either quash or realise my hopes.

• John commented  ·  December 3, 2010 12:06 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Still no support on Xbox announced. The competition is hotting up on the TV platform. When is MS going to wake up on this?

• Bob F commented  ·  December 2, 2010 4:52 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Android? Heck, Microsoft won't even talk about the Mac anymore. How many of those new SL 5 features are actually going to work on the Mac? I have a bad feeling SL is moving away from cross-platform support, not towards it.

• Pete Magrath commented  ·  December 2, 2010 2:56 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Forget running Silverlight on an iPad - it will never happen (officially!). Silverlight projects needs to be compiled as HTML5 and be plug-in free before this can happen. A silverlight plug-in for Android however is a more achievable goal!

• yozi commented  ·  December 2, 2010 1:54 p.m.  ·  Delete

  only one word: Android

• Narayan Sainaney commented  ·  December 2, 2010 11:01 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Scott Guthrie gave a keynote at the Silverlight Firestarter touting new features coming in Silverlight 5 this morning (2 Dec 2010). No mention of Android/iOS however :(

• René Massy commented  ·  November 29, 2010 4:53 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I dream of using my silverlight knowledge and target iPhone, iPad or Android devices.

• ifaro commented  ·  November 26, 2010 3:14 p.m.  ·  Delete

  If Silverlight apps are useable on Android OS (and other mobile OS's) more devs will take to creating their apps in this code as they know it will have a wider target audience... win win for android and wp7 (+ others?)! Of course.. adobe Air could fill that gap if you're not quick to pick up on this MS.. especially with the new Blackberry pad coming soon ;)

• buhuang commented  ·  November 24, 2010 6:13 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Must to support android!!!
  MS may fear the android competition with WP7
  But the android as an open OS is WP7 unparalleled.
  Do not support android, MS will lose a lot of market opportunities

• vibergui commented  ·  November 24, 2010 8:35 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Android!!!!!!!
  Please!
  It's the right time to make the right thing! Android are going very good for all kind of use: phone,tablet and generic mobile device!
  Let's go Microsoft!

• Andrew Tierney commented  ·  November 23, 2010 3:08 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Android is a MUST have, otherwise developers WILL move to HTML5 or other frameworks. If you want Windows Mobile 7 and Silverlight to survive, you need to support Android.

• WiB commented  ·  November 21, 2010 3:21 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Android!!!!!!!!

• Anonymous commented  ·  November 17, 2010 3:19 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Android Please

• Narayan Sainaney commented  ·  November 15, 2010 7:12 p.m.  ·  Delete

  MonoDroid/MonoTouch seems to make more sense over Silverlight at this point. Too bad...

• Doug commented  ·  November 15, 2010 5:33 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Still waiting for Android - hmmm, maybe netflix and other apps will skip silverlight as it is so proprietary! Would love it if it was more open!

• Brian Bosak commented  ·  November 14, 2010 8:16 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Cross-platform support (as in Linux) is essential to my business. We support Linux, and Windows customers. We are currently using Flash, because it is cross-platform, but Silverlight seems to be far superior to Flash (multi-threading support, direct camera access, easy microphone recording and data processing, etc.). I know that Mono exists to 'solve this problem', however; its development lags far behind that of 'official' silverlight.

• danvanderboom commented  ·  November 12, 2010 6:22 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Please support managed code with Silverlight on Windows Embedded Compact. Currently this is unmanaged code only, which has absolutely no value to the managed-only coders that currently make up a huge portion of today's Silverlight developers.

• GT commented  ·  November 10, 2010 2:19 p.m.  ·  Delete

  As an ISV:

  Android
  iPhone

• Rob commented  ·  November 8, 2010 5:22 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Android Please!!!! Pretty please!!!