Silverlight 5, Microsoft's .NET development tool, was released as a final product on Friday by Microsoft. The release is the latest -- and perhaps the last -- major update to the company's .NET ...

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 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 ...

Talking about Windows 8 last week and work on apps for the platform, Microsoft stayed mum about Silverlight. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley says the silence can only hurt. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

One of Microsoft’s most anticipated new products is a free, tiny download that will run on Windows, Mac and eventually Linux, and went from a roughed-out preview to a final product in less than a year ...

LAS VEGAS--Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add support for dynamic languages. At the Mix '07 Web developer and designer ...

Microsoft rolled out the final version of its Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 operating system on September 22. The 6.0 R3 release is the first CE variant to include an embedded version of Silverlight, ...

Silverlight, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system that powers Windows Vista, is Microsoft's attempt to trump Adobe's Flash technology by offering better-looking, more advanced ...

The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac. Video: Silverlight in action Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

For a change, let’s not kill a technology. There seems to be quite a debate Mary Jo started with her post on Microsoft’s Silverlight strategy. While the strategy has shifted, the blogosphere at large ...

Silverlight still has a bright and promising future with Microsoft, the company’s servers and tools division chief, Bob Muglia, wrote in a blog post on Monday, aiming to quell rumors to the contrary. ...