At a Silverlight event today, Microsoft gave a first look at the next version of the company's development platform. Silverlight 5 will be a more complete, more capable development platform, and ...

Silverlight 5 may well be Microsoft's last release of a true cross-platform, consistent, browser-based, WPF/E-inspired, Silverlight-branded platform.

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 - ...

Silverlight 5 may also be the end of the line for Silverlight. Yesterday, Microsoft released the fifth version of Silverlight. It’s available on IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on both Mac and PC.

Silverlight 5 offers improvements targeted at premium media experiences and enterprise apps, according to Microsoft. The public beta is slated for the first half of 2011.

Microsoft officials didn't use the release of Silverlight 5 as a chance to offer further guidance as to the platform's future. We still have no word on when or if there will be a Silverlight 6.

Today was a very important day in the land of Microsoft with the unveiling of Silverlight 5 in all its glory and features. If you missed our coverage of its announcement, give the post a read, we ...

Microsoft didn't make its own deadline of releasing to the Web version 5 of Silverlight. And there's still no word as to when and if the Softies will talk about the platform's future.

Silverlight 5 is a revised plug-in that weighs in at around 7MB in size, with new features including Hardware Decode of H.264 media, ...

When Microsoft premiered Silverlight as something called WPF/E in 2007, it was with the idea of enabling developers to build "rich Internet applications," and to conceivably run them outside of ...

Silverlight 5 will also include a playback tool called Trickplay, which adds variable speed playback to audio and video. This will let users speed up or slow down the media they're ingesting ...

Inside of Silverlight 5, as per our previous coverage, is: Hardware Media Decoding Trickplay – Variable speed playbac TNW Quick Hit: The Silverlight 5 beta, promised to be released today, is now ...