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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web, part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools powerhouse Adobe. As described by ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Shana Dacres-Lawrence explains the complex ...

Microsoft is attempting to quell the notion that Silverlight is becoming less strategically important to the company as it sets its sights on HTML5. The dearth of Silverlight-related information at ...

When I posted about the book Getting Started with Silverlight last Friday, I made the incorrect assumption that the Silverlight examples mentioned in Shawn's book would work. Unfortunately, some of ...

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’s Silverlight technology has streamed some high-profile live events lately, the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the 2008 Summer Olympics among them. But Silverlight’s real ...