Silverlight is far from dead and it’s toolset isn’t dead either. This unfortunate PDC misspeak during the presentations has caused much of us angst and has frankly lost a lot of us business in the Silverlight community with upcoming projects because Microsoft signaled it’s commitment to HTML in an unfortunate way that didn’t include Silverlight or present it in an all-inclusive vision..

Combine that with Adobe’s reveal at Adobe Max of a tool to convert Flash to HTML 5 that it’s unfortunate that the world now thinks that Silverlight and Flash both are down for the count..

Thanks for leaving an aftermath in the developer community of cancelled projects and loss of momentum and livelihood.. For those of you wondering Silverlight is far from dead and the investment you have made in this technology is actually growing and moving forward.. I hope Microsoft makes a major effort to save this..

Microsoft at PDC you miss stepped badly.. Please take serious action more than a statement is required.. Spend some advertising money stop the bleed now.. You jeopardized Silverlight progress in major  enterprise adoption that is going on right now.. You should have really thought about your statements before going there..

Many of us in this community have lost new project work with major work for the next few months either postponed or cancelled. Spend some money with an full-on campaign (even TV) stop the bleed now..

This has really been disruptive to much of Microsoft and their vendors efforts to enterprise Silverlight adoption work.. The sad thing is that even though IE 9 is a great thing, there isn’t great HTML 5 tooling to support adoption, unless they want to send everyone back to Adobe’s Creative Suite which seems to be the aim here.. Bob what were you and Steve Ballmer thinking with not a fully outlined strategy to announce, especially with the marked interest in HTML 5 anyway..

There needs to be a Silverlight positioning campaign to let the world know where Microsoft is positioning Silverlight (not just in Windows Phone) but the rest of the world.. Since CEOs and CIOs plan for the future you can already count that you let the genie out of the bottle so to speak and it’s not going back in..

We ‘don’t need to hear yet again from the Silverlight folks at Microsoft they need to hear from you, not tomorrow, not now but YESTERDAY! Yes that soon..