Microsoft on Friday said that it may discontinue its free Popfly service that lets non-programmers build Web 2.0 apps.
Popfly “is in a transitional phase,” said a Microsoft spokeswoman on Friday. “We have no other details at the moment.”
A free programming tool built on Microsoft’s Silverlight rich media platform, Popfly lets novice coders build powerful Web 2.0 apps or casual games simply by dragging and dropping pre-built services such as RSS or Flickr image feeds, all represented on the screen as icons or blocks.