Don't get caught up in dead technology
July 28, 2021
Don't get caught up in dead technology
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Silverlight
Our application that we sell uses Silverlight as its web front end. That application is core to our business. The organization sells, deploys, and maintains this application. We have been developing in Silverlight for almost 10 years at this point and it is now deprecated
- Provided features not regularly avaible in I.E
- No longer being supported
- No upkeep with ria services
- Be nice to work in a modern browser
- Web based
- Out of browser support
- Plugin with 3rd parties such as telerik
- Negative that the application is no longer supported
- Impact to delivery of new features
- Customer dissatisfaction
- React, Node.js and .NET
We picked silverlight 10 years ago because html 5 wasn't feature rich yet. We thought Microsoft was going to support for longer. Unfortunately html 5 became feature rich and silverlight got deprecated. At the time it provided features a normal browser could not
Do you think Microsoft Silverlight delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Microsoft Silverlight's feature set?
No
Did Microsoft Silverlight live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Microsoft Silverlight go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Silverlight again?
No