
We first met OpenSilver in March 2020, see OpenSilver - Silverlight Reborn? when Userware, the French software company that originated it as an open source project hosted on GitHub, initially released a Preview. But now there is an alternative that doesn't have an axe hanging over its head. It was a bleak day when Microsoft pulled the plug on SIlverlight development but it has been a further decade before Silverlight reached end of support - and of course even now anybody who is using Silverlight can continue to do so. It also sees the launch of OpenSilver 1.0 a modern, plug-in free open-source reimplementation of Silverlight, capable of running large, complex legacy applications, as well as newly written C# and XAML applications.

Today, October 12th 2021 marks the end of support of Microsoft Silverlight.
