Netflix has officially announced its plans to transition from using Microsoft's Silverlight for streaming video in PC web browsers to a solution that uses an HTML5-based video player. More...
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback so you can experience rich Internet applications. More...
Mozilla has announced that going forward, its Firefox web browser will soon block the running of nearly all third party web plugin software by default, with the exception of the current Flash version. More...
In an official blog post, Microsoft has outlined ways to preserve the future of an existing WP7 app, including how to bring the applications to WP8 while still maintaining a legacy version. More...
Microsoft has now shut down its Silverlight.net website, which served as a resource for developers that used the video streaming software, but still won't comment on the future of Silverlight. More...
Mozilla has announced that users of its Firefox web browser for Windows will now prompt its users to update their plugin software if they need such an update, such as Flash and Silverlight. More...
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback so you can experience rich Internet applications. More...
A new post on the official Windows Phone developers blog seems to hint strongly that Microsoft may be retiring Silverlight support for Windows Phone app makers. More...
After being delayed from a planned release at the end of November, Microsoft has now released the fifth, and possibly final version, of its Silverlight web browser plug in program. More...
New rumors claim that Microsoft will shut down development of its Silverlight web browser plug-in after it releases version 5 sometime later this month and that it will run just on Internet Explorer. More...
A new report claims that Microsoft's Xbox TV service for its Xbox 360 console will use apps that are built on an updated version of Microsoft's Silverlight platform that's code named "Lakeview". More...
According to a former product manager at Microsoft, Silverlight is dead and Windows 8 needs "a lot of work." Not only in Windows 8, but as a platform as a whole. More...
A port of XNA has been released in its first public preview and is named ExEn. It's not officially supported by Microsoft, but it was created by an individual named Andrew Russell. The port runs... More...
Microsoft has announced the first beta release of Silverlight 5 today. According to TNW, the beta download is available on the official Silverlight site. The Silverlight 5 beta adds a number of new features and capabilities,... More...
The Silverlight Team announced on Tuesday that the next major version of Silverlight will be debuting at MIX11 next week. In the blog post, Microsoft emphasized their support for HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 becoming the... More...
Despite rumors that Microsoft's Silverlight platform was going to be left behind based on IE9's push for HTML 5, the Silverlight team is still hard at work on bringing the web technology to all platforms.... More...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen set up an hour long secret meeting to discuss a variety of topics, including a possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft. According to The New York... More...
W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium has deemed HTML5 not yet be ready to deploy in web applications. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Opera have all added some support of the HTML5 specification into their... More...
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback so you can experience rich Internet applications. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB,... More...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at the All Things Digital D8 conference today where two days ago Apple CEO Steve Jobs had donned the stage. A large amount of the interview was focused on the future... More...
Apple is reported to be developing their own native and standards based web framework to compete with Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight. Named “Gianduia”, the client-side javascript framework would enable developers to create rich,... More...
Microsoft has officially released Silverlight for mass consumption. The download brings many enhancements to the platform including support for Google’s Chrome browser. You can download the newest version now by visiting Microsoft’s office... More...
Microsoft said on Tuesday that Silverlight 4 will be released on April 15. The update includes many key additions including support for Google’s Chrome browser. This additional support should help with the adoption... More...
Earlier, Microsoft posted a press release announcing the general availability of Visual Studio 2010, in addition to the .NET Framework 4. According to the announcement, developers will be able to obtain the new software during... More...
Microsoft demonstrated several new applications for Windows Phone 7 series devices today at its annual MIX 2010 developer conference. Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone program management at Microsoft, demonstrated unseen Windows Phone 7... More...
Microsoft said on Monday that it is making a Release Candidate (RC) version of Silverlight 4 for download. At a keynote for Microsoft's MIX 2010 keynote, Scott Guthrie, Vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, outlined Silverlight... More...
Back near the start of 2008, it was announced by the Redmond software-giant Microsoft and Finnish communications company Nokia that the Silverlight platform would be coming to Symbian OS phones. Fast forward to 2010, and... More...
Documents leaked to the XDA-Developers forum reveal that Windows Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend are the primary tools for developing applications for Windows Phones. Developer frameworks The documents show that there are two frameworks... More...
Scott Guthrie, VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, originally demonstrated a Silverlight client for Facebook during his PDC 2009 keynote late last year. Today Microsoft has made the Silverlight Client available for Windows and Mac OS X... More...
That's the message coming out of yesterday's annual company meeting at Microsoft. Several Microsoft employees tweeted that Microsoft's improvements to Bing maps is "exciting" with one going as far as to claim "BING 2.0 terrific... More...
Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 designer tools on July 10 company spokespeople confirmed today. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264... More...
Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb, Silverlight Team, demonstrated a jaw dropping implementation of Facebook's recently announced API changes. Goldfarb was presenting at a Facebook Demo day, Cnet news attended and recorded the session (see below). The applications... More...
Microsoft made a list of announcements today at the MIX09 conference during the keynote addressed by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform and Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research. Of all the announcements... More...
Just in case you missed our live blogging of the MIX09 keynote, we've got a full list of new features that are in the Silverlight 3 beta. You can now download the Silverlight 3 beta... More...
As we mentioned earlier, today will kick off the annual Microsoft MIX conference in Las Vegas, NV. MIX is for designers and developers who build innovative web sites. Attendees are coders, strategists, information architects, visual... More...
Once again Microsoft is going back on its push for 64-bit computing for the masses. In an interview with ars technica Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division gave the following response... More...
Not long after releasing the second version of Microsoft's Adobe Flash competitor, Silverlight, in October this year, Microsoft has hinted that the third version is in development. A release date is still not known, but... More...
Microsoft today announced the availability of Silverlight 2. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in to rival Adobe's Flash. It allows for developers to build interactive applications for the Web. Microsoft also announced further... More...
Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the company's Silverlight browser plug-in technology. The intent is to let developers continue using... More...
Veteran Microsoft ISV partner Infragistics is taking an early lead on Silverlight 2, Microsoft's emerging cross-browser media plug-in. The company expects to release an experimental set of components based on Silverlight 2 beta 2 for... More...
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative to Adobe's Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of... More...
Microsoft is readying a new video website. Microsoft Videos Beta, will launch in April with United States content at first. In the coming months they will be adding videos from Microsoft subsidiaries around the world.... More...
The strategy to get its rich Internet app on cell phones is part of Microsoft's effort to make the browser plug-in a cross-platform, cross-browser product. Microsoft's bringing Silverlight to cell phones, partnering with Nokia to... More...
If you’ve visited the Microsoft Download Center in the last month or so, you’ve probably been prompted with a pop-up asking you to try the Silverlight version of the site. Currently in beta, the new... More...
In one of the most bizarre agreements I have yet reported on, the makers of Jackass 1 and 2 have agreed to team up with Microsoft to release JACKASS 2.5, for free, using the software... More...
Microsoft & INETA Europe, has organised the 1st European Silverlight Challenge. This competition is taking place in different European countries: Italy, United Kingdom , Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain , Belgium, Croatia, Ukraine,... More...
Any day now, details of IE8 will begin to emerge and my question will have a black and white answer. Until then though, I'm free to speculate about the best way for Microsoft getting Silverlight... More...
Microsoft today released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight™ 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux,... More...
When Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled Silverlight at MIX07, he vowed that it would be a cross-platform technology. It appears as if the software giant is making good on that pledge: SD Times... More...
Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle. The company is collaborating with Microsoft on this endeavor. Through Silverlight,... More...