Microsoft Dumping Silverlight from New Edge Browser

[Brad]

MS is not including Silverlight as one of the plugins in it's new Edge browser.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/silverlight-dumped-in-microsoft-plugin-spring-cleaning-with-edge/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

I'm not a big Silverlight fan.  When it works it is pretty neat, but it's always a pain around my house finding a device that will display Silverlight: my tablets and my Ubuntu laptop won't run it which for years left only my elderly iMac and Safari.  Too much trouble.

[bill]

Good riddance. Getting rid of Flash and Silverlight will lower a lot of the inevitable security issues for this new browser. I'm surprised MS won't be including this as we all know their fondness for backward compatibility.