Microsoft is beta testing a new version of its Download Center site that makes use of its Silverlight browser plug-in technology Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of ...

Bill Gates uses the company's TechEd conference to show off updates to its Flash competitor, as well as other tools. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s much-touted and much-anticipated RIA (rich Internet application) entry, Silverlight, lets Web developers and designers create “rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, ...

Over the weekend, angry Netflix users flooded the company's blog with reports of choppy video performance and audio synchronization issues related to Netflix's Silverlight-based video player, which ...

Recently, Microsoft gave the first official on-record confirmation about the apparent impending doom of the Windows Control Panel. After widespread media coverage of it though, the company soon ...