Perhaps you read the news late last week or this past weekend that Microsoft is shifting their strategy when it comes to Silverlight. Essentially, they indicated that they were commited to using it as the development platform for Windows Phone, and for certain media applications (like Netflix), but for a true cross-platform strategy, they're going to shift their focus to HTML5. That all sounds great. It makes a lot of sense. Well, unless you're a Silverlight developer. Then you might be a little worried and/or pissed off. In fact, following Bob Muglia's (Microsoft’s SVP of the Server and Tools Business) comments last week during PDC, there was a bit of an uproar in the Silverlight Forums . So it's hardly surprising today that we have Muglia directly responding with a follow-up blog post . And perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has also issued his own post with his thoughts on PDC where he makes mention of Silverlight — 6 times in 5 paragraphs.