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 ...

Silverlight 5, the most recent -- and possibly last -- version of Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in, is poised to be released to manufacturing (RTM) before the end of November. Several of my ...

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 ...

At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week, the future of Silverlight is one topic that has gotten short shrift. There have been no sessions about Silverlight 5 and only one ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

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 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 ...

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 ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft's recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way forward ...

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 ...

At this week’s MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft unveiled a developer beta of Silverlight 3.0, the latest version of its media-rich online application technology. Although Silverlight is often ...