This is Microsoft's primary strategy. There are a lot of victims out there.

... he says after spending several months porting a win32 app to Silverlight as part of a Gold Partner/MS case study with much fanfare, only to have to spent the next few years backporting everything into the win32 app it never replaced, and then it was shit canned and only the win32 version remains.

We're planning to rewrite it in Qt at some point as some of our customers use RHEL.