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Netflix currently uses Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin to run its streams. It’s an inelegant solution that sometimes makes for subpar and bogged down streaming experiences. But Silverlight is ...

Microsoft Corp. says it has signed up Major League Baseball, Netflix and others to offer ... That support for the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in, previously known by the code name "WPF/E," is ...

If you're a Netflix subscriber and you use a Mac or PC for playback, then you may be aware that the service utilizes Microsoft's Silverlight plugin to bring you all that Breaking Bad and House of ...

Netflix on Monday said it would abandon Microsoft’s Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions. The move ...

Now for the bad news: We could’ve all been watching Netflix on Linux with no headaches whatsoever for years now if Microsoft had stuck to its initial plans for the Silverlight plugin.

Netflix, which delivers more video via the Internet than anyone except YouTube, is dropping Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in technology for video delivery, moving instead to HTML5. Here’s the ...

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