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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 After the company took a first step last year in banning outdated versions of the plugin, it's now blocking some Flash content by default.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apple is known for being rather stubborn when it comes to foreign technology on their devices, particularly the iPhone. Flash is still banned from the product, and Silverlight was presumed to be the same. However,...

Microsoft have just announced Silverlight 4 beta today at PDC09, that is available for download today. Silverlight 4 promises to enhance the overall user experience, improving speed, performance and rendering for browsers. Silverlight 4...