When Silverlight was introduced in 2007, it was positioned as a kind of alternative to Adobe Flash. Though Silverlight and Flash have their differences—Silverlight's approach is a bit more ...

Microsoft has released version 5 of its Silverlight browser plugin and runtime environment. Among other new features, the 7-12MB download gives Silverlight developers a 3D API based on Direct3D ...

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 ...

Muglia has now posted an explanation on the Silverlight blog under PDC and Silverlight, saying: "I understand that what I said surprised people and caused controversy and confusion.As this ...

Microsoft has come through with Silverlight 5, which was released as a final product today. The release is the latest -- and perhaps the last -- major update to the company's .NET technology for ...

Remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application plug-in that competed with Adobe Flash before HTML5 pushed aside both? The introduction of OpenSilver this week by .NET software ...

To ease that pain, Microsoft Corp. recently announced Silverlight, a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for Web application developers. The plug-in, currently available as a Release Candidate ...

At Microsoft's Mix '10 conference in March, where Microsoft took the wraps off its HTML 5 vision for Internet Explorer 9, there were a lot of questions about the future for Silverlight.

It's important that you first understand the fundamental differences between Silverlight and WinRT apps. Take a look at Table 1 for a quick comparison of each platform's technology. Windows 8 is more ...

Microsoft's next iteration of Silverlight brings with it some big improvements to media handling and power efficiency. It also promises to make it easier, and faster to build apps. Josh Lowensohn ...