The technology will feature improved startup times and more capabilities for running applications outside of a browser Microsoft revealed on Wednesday ambitious plans for the next version of its ...

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsoft's latest example of software plus service (S+S) -- a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming -- during his ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Q: What is Silverlight, and do I need it? - Glen A: The Internet remains the biggest opportunity for companies that are jockeying for your eyeballs, and Silverlight is Microsoft's attempt to gain ...

Despite prognostications otherwise, Microsoft’s Silverlight development platform has a future at the company, the company says Silverlight still has a bright and promising future with Microsoft, the ...

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 ...

Microsoft Silverlight, a browser plug-in designed to help companies produce rich, web-based applications and user experiences, first arrived back in 2007 and was touted by many as the replacement for ...

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 ...

Last week Bob Muglia Microsoft’s President of the Server and Tools Business Division appeared to suggest that Microsoft’s Silverlight software might take second place to HTML 5 and slip into the ether ...