Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Silverlight video player with a host of partners already in place. Included is CBS, which will use the technology on a site dedicated to the Emmy Awards broadcast ...

Microsoft Silverlight is a component in many web browsers that helps them stream and display video, music, clickable menus, and other types of "rich media" content. Launched in 2007, it was intended ...

When Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight, he is usually having one of two types of conversations. One is centered on market share and the fact that Adobe Systems' Flash is nearly ...

Silverlight, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system that powers Windows Vista, is Microsoft's attempt to trump Adobe's Flash technology by offering better-looking, more advanced ...

Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Silverlight video player with a host of partners already in place. Included is CBS, which will use the technology on a site dedicated to the Emmy Awards broadcast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In touting deals it has signed with Internet video broadcasters such as Netflix Inc., Brightcove Inc. and Major League Baseball, Microsoft Corp. is declaring that its nascent Silverlight rich media ...

Netflix is trying to locate the source of a series of glitches that some users of the company’s streaming service are blaming on Microsoft’s Silverlight video player. Over the weekend, a steady stream ...

A Microsoft Corp. official cited on Tuesday improvements planned for the company’s Silverlight platform for rich Internet applications, including intentions to run Silverlight applications outside of ...

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. So, why ...