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 ...

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 ...