Neowin News Feed for: Silverlight

Former Microsoft executive explains why Windows GUI strategy is such a mess

Usama Jawad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:28:01 +0000

Decades of mixed signals and sudden pivots from Microsoft have left Windows developers stuck juggling overlapping tools with no clear direction. Read more...

Microsoft kills legacy DRM support on Windows Media Player, Windows 7/ 8, Silverlight

Sayan Sen — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:54:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced it is killing off Windows legacy DRM support on Windows 8, Windows 7, Silverlight, and legacy Windows Media Player. Read more...

Killed by Microsoft: A virtual graveyard of dead and abandoned Microsoft products

Dean Howell — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 21:31:49 +0000

It's an excellent memorial. The project currently lists a staggering 70 scrapped products including Silverlight, the Adobe Flash competitor that once powered Netflix in the browser. Read more...

PSA: Microsoft is ending support for Silverlight next month

Usama Jawad — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:28:01 +0000

Customers still building web applications in Microsoft's Silverlight framework should know that the platform is reaching end of support on October 12, 2021. Currently, it is only supported in IE11. Read more...

Internal builds confirm Microsoft will remove Silverlight support for Windows 10 Mobile

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:08:01 +0000

The latest internal builds from Microsoft confirm previous reports that the company will, in the near future, be dropping support for Silverlight apps in the mobile version of Windows 10. Read more...

Phishing email scam utilizes keylogger malware to steal sensitive information

Justin Luna — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:20:01 +0000

A new phishing scam was seen targeting a US financial services provider, delivering an innocent-looking Word file. However, it contains malware that could leak sensitive data to cybercriminals. Read more...

Firefox takes another step in ditching Flash; promises better battery life, security

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:26:02 +0000

Firefox vowed to get rid of Flash from its browser entirely. After the company took a first step last year in banning outdated versions of the plugin, it's now blocking some Flash content by default. Read more...

Apple kicks Flash while it's down by turning it off by default in Safari 10

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:16:01 +0000

Apple has announced that once Safari 10 reaches the public, as part of macOS Sierra, Flash will be turned off by default in an effort to ensure users have a better and safer experience with HTML5. Read more...

Crypto ransomware hits major websites through banner ads in past 24 hours

John Devon — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:20:01 +0000

The massive “malvertising” campaign is targeting users on popular sites including the BBC, MSN, AOL, The New York Times, and nfl.com. Vulnerabilities in Flash and Silverlight are being exploited. Read more...

Mobilize.Net builds bridge for developers to port Windows Phone Silverlight apps to Windows 10

Ian Ginos — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:50:01 +0000

Mobilize.Net has announced the availability of a software development bridge that enables developers to port their existing Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight apps to the Windows 10 UAP. Read more...

Jamie Oliver's website serves malware to users

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:52:50 +0000

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been having some troubles with his website, which has been serving out malware to visitors. The problems have now been solved but many may have already been infected. Read more...

Netflix to transition from Microsoft's Silverlight to HTML5

John Callaham — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:51:03 +0000

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. Read more...

Silverlight 5.1.20125.0

Razvan Serea — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:11:47 +0000

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. Read more...

Nearly all Firefox plugins to be blocked by default, including Silverlight

John Callaham — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:48:58 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft encourages development of WP7 and 8-friendly apps

Paul Ferson — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:17:21 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft shuts down Silverlight.net; won't talk about future updates

John Callaham — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:10:00 +0000

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. Read more...

Firefox for Windows to offer prompts for updating plugins

John Callaham — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:56:32 +0000

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. Read more...

Silverlight 5.1.10411.0

Razvan Serea — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:06:27 +0000

Microsoft retiring Silverlight for WP7 app development? [Update]

John Callaham — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:41:08 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft releases Silverlight 5

John Callaham — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:56:30 +0000

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. Read more...

Rumor: Microsoft to shut down Silverlight after version 5

John Callaham — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:00:09 +0000

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. Read more...

Rumor: Xbox TV apps to be built on Silverlight

John Callaham — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:01:40 +0000

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". Read more...

Former Microsoft PM: "Silverlight is Dead"

Owen Williams — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:30:28 +0000

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. Read more...

XNA port for Silverlight and iOS

James Woodfin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:54:11 +0000

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... Read more...

Silverlight 5 beta launched

Byron Hinson — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:04:57 +0000

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,... Read more...

Silverlight 5 beta coming next week at MIX11

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:31:51 +0000

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... Read more...

Silverlight is far from dead, coming to Xbox [Update]

Alan Cone — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:29:04 +0000

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.... Read more...

Microsoft and Adobe chiefs meet to discuss Apple and possible merger

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:22:26 +0000

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... Read more...

W3C says to hold off on using HTML5

Alan Cone — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000

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... Read more...

Silverlight 4.0.50524

Joshua Seed — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:06:17 +0000

Ballmer comments on the cloud, iPad, Google and Silverlight for iPhone

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:29:53 +0000

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... Read more...

Apple's Gianduia framework to rival Flash and Silverlight?

giga — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:34:28 +0000

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,... Read more...

Microsoft releases Silverlight 4 for mass consumption

Brad Sams — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:02 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft Silverlight 4 set to be released April 15

Brad Sams — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:54:01 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4

Sam Symons — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:16:09 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft shows off Windows Phone 7 third party applications & games

Tom Warren — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:08:01 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft announces Silverlight 4 RC download, final version next month

Tom Warren — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:34:01 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft to launch Silverlight for Symbian beta within a week

Sam Symons — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:17:54 +0000

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... Read more...

Silverlight/XNA confirmed as developer frameworks for Windows Phone 7

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:23:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft's Silverlight Client for Facebook released

Tom Warren — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:53:56 +0000

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... Read more...