If you've heard of Silverlight, it's probably from Netflix nagging you to install it a few years ago. Microsoft will completely retire the remaining Silverlight elements in October 2021.

Microsoft says that Silverlight, a browser plug-in that works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, has key attributes that should prevent Silverlight from such exploits.

Microsoft released Silverlight 1.0 in September 2007 as a plug-in for browsers that could work on Windows, Linux and the Mac platform.

After initial sluggish demand for the browser plug-in, the software maker said the Olympics helped boost Silverlight's U.S. penetration by 30 percent.

Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Silverlight video player with a host of partners already in place. Included is CBS, which will use the technology on a site dedicated to the Emmy Awards ...

Microsoft launched its Silverlight video player with partners already in place including CBS, who will use it to stream the Emmy Awards broadcast Sept. 16.

Silverlight is a free plug-in from Microsoft that allows Windows and Linux PCs as well as Macintoshes to display fancy animated ads, run minisoftware or games, or play DVD-quality video, all ...

Microsoft Silverlight 1.1, currently in alpha tests, incorporates a larger subset of the .Net Framework and supports JIT-compiled C#, Visual Basic .Net, IronPython, and (eventually) IronRuby as well.

Microsoft is releasing its Silverlight 1.0 plug-in for video on the Web Wednesday and also will participate in Novell’s porting of Silverlight to Linux via the Moonlight project.

Microsoft, Guthrie said, has been on “very fast release cadence” with Silverlight, offering the first three releases in the space of 22 months. Silverlight 4 continues this pattern, he said.

Microsoft is slated to show off two features that it is incorporating into the next version of Silverlight, its Internet Explorer plug-in alternative to Adobe Flash at the International ...

Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the companyu2019s Silverlight browser plug-in technology.