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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is leveraging partners to promote Silverlight adoption and will continue to use the cross-platform plug-in more and more as part of its Web content delivery strategy In its quest to make its ...

Microsoft on Monday unveiled new content partners for its Silverlight technology and provided details of a forthcoming digital rights management (DRM) technology for its multimedia platform. The ...

Userware, on a years-long mission to provide an open source alternative to Microsoft Silverlight, shipped OpenSilver 1.0 just as Microsoft ended support for the popular web-dev tool. Silverlight was ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s much-touted and much-anticipated RIA (rich Internet application) entry, Silverlight, lets Web developers and designers create “rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, ...

Bill Gates uses the company's TechEd conference to show off updates to its Flash competitor, as well as other tools. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive ...

The Silverlight 5 beta, promised to be released today, is now live for download. You can download it here. Inside of Silverlight 5, as per our previous coverage, is ...