Silverlight和微软失去了一个非常重要的客户：纽约时报决定放弃从2006年开始在Times Reader中采用的Silverlight/WPF转而使用Adobe Air，目前Air版的Times Reader 2.0也已经发布。显然纽约时报不想再听到读者关于阅读器兼容性的抱怨，而且Silverlight有些情况下动态字体不清晰对于新闻出版业也是个不可原谅的Bug。Rob Larson写到：
This version is powered by Adobe AIR and will run equally well on Windows , Mac and Linux computers. With this latest release, Times Reader resembles the printed paper even more closely, and it updates every five minutes with the latest news from the Web.
附Flash和Silverlight的功能比较表，来自Flash vs. Silverlight: What Suits Your Needs Best?
| Features | Flash | Silverlight |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | better | |
| File size | better | |
| Scripting | better | |
| Video/Audio | better | |
| Sound processing | better | |
| Accessibility | better | |
| Platform compatibility | better | |
| Text representation/SEO | better | |
| Supported image formats | better | |
| Socket programming | better | |
| Webcam support | better | |
| Deployment | better | |
| Windows application | better | |
| Media streaming | better |
