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 ...

Microsoft has released a wide-ranging set of security patches this month. Four bulletins were rated critical, concern vulnerabilities that could be exploited by inducing a user to visit a maliciously ...

Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released Wednesday initial public beta versions of its Silverlight 2 multimedia presentation technology and the Internet ...

Remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application plug-in that competed with Adobe Flash before HTML5 pushed aside both? The introduction of OpenSilver this week by .NET software company ...

LAS VEGAS — As part of its foray into the Web design tools market, Microsoft Corp. is eschewing its usual tactics for encouraging or, as many of the companys critics would put it, strong-arming end ...

Microsoft Silverlight is a component in many web browsers that helps them stream and display video, music, clickable menus, and other types of "rich media" content. Launched in 2007, it was intended ...