Silverlight is the next decade's IE6

Aside from Netflix and MSN/Bing HD Video, and microsoft.com, how much has actually been done with Silverlight, really? My impression of Silverlight, admittedly subjective, has been that it has largely been a failure, and has seen very little adoption in the corporate world.<p>If this observation is accurate, then there is no way that Silverlight can be the next IE 6, simply because the adoption rate is so very small.

Of course, the same exact argument could be made about Flash.

I'm hoping soon that everyone one will learn that technologies never die because of a part of it becomes obsolete. Sure, silverlight started as a plugin for web browsers, but it has evolved beyond that.<p>Please stop equating silverlight to mean web only. Silverlight is actually a nice multiplatform application to make desktop applications in, that can also run within a browser.