Silverlight is Microsoft's framework for the development of web applications. It was released in 2007 and its most recent release came almost three years ago. As of now, the legacy framework is only supported on Internet Explorer, and that is set to change soon as well. Silverlight is reaching end of support on October 12, 2021, as
pointed out by Tero Alhonen on Twitter.
The writing's been on the wall for quite some time now for Silverlight.
Silverlight 4 was the primary development platform for Windows Phone,
and we all know what happened to that. Even way back in 2011, we had
former Microsoft executives proclaiming the death of Silverlight. Netflix
transitioned from Silverlight to HTML5 in 2013 too. 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.
The
dedicated Microsoft Silverlight portal shows a banner about impending end of support and points to a
support document detailing some more information.
Microsoft says that until the end of support date on October 12, it will continue providing technical assistance to customers using Silverlight 5 only. This includes paid support for Silverlight applications running on Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on the following platforms:
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