Microsoft has emphasized that it is not planning any move to kill off Silverlight applications but it is important to note that software running on this framework will not get any security or feature updates. This includes paid support for Silverlight applications running on Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on the following platforms: Microsoft says that until the end of support date on October 12, it will continue providing technical assistance to customers using Silverlight 5 only.
The dedicated Microsoft Silverlight portal shows a banner about impending end of support and points to a support document detailing some more information. Microsoft Edge does not support Silverlight outside of IE mode, Google Chrome ended support for it in September 2015, and Mozilla Firefox did the same in March 2017. Netflix transitioned from Silverlight to HTML5 in 2013 too. Even way back in 2011, we had former Microsoft executives proclaiming the death of Silverlight. Silverlight 4 was the primary development platform for Windows Phone, and we all know what happened to that.
The writing's been on the wall for quite some time now for Silverlight. Silverlight is reaching end of support on October 12, 2021, as pointed out by Tero Alhonen on Twitter. As of now, the legacy framework is only supported on Internet Explorer, and that is set to change soon as well. It was released in 2007 and its most recent release came almost three years ago. Silverlight is Microsoft's framework for the development of web applications.
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