LAS VEGAS--Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add support for dynamic languages. At the Mix '07 Web developer and designer ...

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 ...

In touting deals it has signed with Internet video broadcasters such as Netflix Inc., Brightcove Inc. and Major League Baseball, Microsoft Corp. is declaring that its nascent Silverlight rich media ...

Talking about Windows 8 last week and work on apps for the platform, Microsoft stayed mum about Silverlight. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley says the silence can only hurt. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

Netflix says it will stop using Microsoft Silverlight’s technology to stream video on Windows PCs and Macs — just as soon as HTML5 video evolves to meet its needs for playing content in the browser ...

Microsoft has announced how it will help developers using the Eclipse platform and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, ...

One of Microsoft’s most anticipated new products is a free, tiny download that will run on Windows, Mac and eventually Linux, and went from a roughed-out preview to a final product in less than a year ...

Microsoft rolled out the final version of its Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 operating system on September 22. The 6.0 R3 release is the first CE variant to include an embedded version of Silverlight, ...

Silverlight 5, Microsoft's .NET development tool, was released as a final product on Friday by Microsoft. The release is the latest -- and perhaps the last -- major update to the company's .NET ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Yesterday, Microsoft released the fifth version of Silverlight. It’s available on IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari ...

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 ...

The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac. Video: Silverlight in action Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...