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 ...

Microsoft is attempting to quell the notion that Silverlight is becoming less strategically important to the company as it sets its sights on HTML5. The dearth of Silverlight-related information at ...

Instead of throwing more resources into the fading star of Windows Mobile, Microsoft will rally its developer army to build Silverlight mobile applications and quickly establish Windows Phone as a ...

Although Microsoft has given a cold shoulder lately to its Silverlight rich Internet plug-in platform, it’s preparing version 5 for release soon, and some users expect Silverlight to have a long life ...

Microsoft has announced it is killing off Windows legacy DRM support on Windows 8, Windows 7, Silverlight, and legacy Windows Media Player. Recently, Microsoft gave the first official on-record ...

Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released Wednesday initial public beta versions of its Silverlight 2 multimedia presentation technology and the Internet ...

The technology will feature improved startup times and more capabilities for running applications outside of a browser Microsoft revealed on Wednesday ambitious plans for the next version of its ...

But Microsoft said adoption of Silverlight has accelerated, with more than one in three Internet devices having installed the earlier Silverlight 2 since its release about nine months ago. Silverlight ...

OpenSilver 1.0 arrived a year ago on the same exact date that Microsoft Silverlight's official support life ended, providing an open source alternative to the developer favorite that effectively died ...