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 major ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Yesterday, Microsoft released the fifth version of Silverlight. It’s available on IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Netflix says it will stop using Microsoft Silverlight’s technology to stream video on Windows PCs and Macs — just as soon as HTML5 video evolves to meet its needs for playing content in the browser ...

Microsoft’s “Flash-killer,” Silverlight released the third version of its rich media application platform, Silverlight 3, on the web yesterday. This morning, Microsoft is holding the official launch ...

Microsoft has unveiled the next iteration of its Silverlight technology, Silverlight 5, which the company said will improve things like media playback and the time it takes to develop applications, ...

Silverlight 5, Microsoft's .NET development tool, was released as a final product on Friday by Microsoft. The release is the latest -- and perhaps the last -- major update to the company's .NET ...

Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe Flash, Silverlight, has officially rolled out the new version, Silverlight 3, today. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for ...

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Beta is joined by Expression Blend 3 Preview and continued updates to the its Azure Services Platform for the cloud. Touching on the other news, Microsoft Expression Blend 3 ...

The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac. Video: Silverlight in action Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...