Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight used to be incredibly popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. Almost no ...

Have you heard of Microsoft Silverlight? It is an all-purpose plug-in designed by Microsoft and launched in 2007. As of now, it will receive its burial in the digital cemetery in October 2021.

Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft Silverlight once vied for a spot in people’s browsers as the preferred way to play audio and video on the Web. Both were doomed by the rise of the mobile Web and ...

If reports of the demise of Silverlight are based on Microsoft's perceived support of the run-time tool, pundits might be on to something, as the company's quiet launch of Silverlight 5 last week - ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released the fifth version of Silverlight. It’s available on IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on both Mac and PC. The update adds hardware decoding for H.264 media ...

Microsoft Silverlight acts as an interpreter to execute Web apps on different operating systems, so you need the Silverlight plugin if you're planning on running Silverlight apps you find on the ...

Microsoft wants Silverlight to be optimized for every platform that it runs on, said Brian Goldfarb, director of developer and user experience platforms at Microsoft, during an interview at the ...

Update: Listen to our podcast interview with Silverlight product manager Brian Goldfarb at TalkCrunch. Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft's recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way ...

Version 5 beta of Microsoft's browser plug-in is due at the Mix conference next week with major new features. But Silverlight vs. Adobe's Flash is yesterday's battle. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin lets you access multimedia Silverlight content. Websites use Silverlight to deliver streaming video and other interactive features. To view Silverlight ...