Have you heard of Microsoft Silverlight? It is an all-purpose plug-in designed by Microsoft and launched in 2007. As of now, it will receive its burial in the digital cemetery in October 2021. So, why ...

As Microsoft made plain at its Professional Developers Conference last week, there's no end in sight to the list of new features and functionality it plans to add to Silverlight. Some developers who ...

Software developers are busy kicking the tires on Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash. This summary of not-necessarily-technical information will help IT managers identify what's ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft's recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way forward ...

When Adobe, Google and Yahoo announced earlier this week that content stored in its Flash file format would be more easily indexable by Google's and Yahoo's search engines, Microsoft was nowhere to be ...

Crafting a Web strategy is important for any thriving business. However, implementing that strategy with rich Internet applications is not always as easy as it should be. To ease that pain, Microsoft ...