Netflix Monday disclosed plans to expand its use of HTML5 to develop software that enables its instant video streaming service. Netflix's move will reduce the company's reliance on Silverlight, a ...

While most Windows programs and applications provide enhanced productivity or entertainment, others overstay their welcome. These unneeded programs can hog precious system resources, slow performance, ...

Some 10 years after the final Microsoft Silverlight release, some developers still fear being "Silverlighted," or seeing a development product in which they have invested heavily be abandoned by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft sometimes discontinues or retires its products without providing enough information about why they do it. Some good products were still in demand, but Microsoft refused to continue them.

MLB.tv's Web player moving from flash in 2018 season Other holdouts: Mint.com, Optimum cable, Logitech's Harmony remote If you go to the right sites on the Web, it’s 2007 all over again. These special ...

Exploits targeting a patched Silverlight vulnerability have found their way into the Angler Exploit Kit and victims are being hit with TeslaCrypt ransomware. Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft ...

A Silverlight vulnerability patched yesterday by Microsoft could be tied to a Russian hacker who tried to sell a similar zero day to the Hacking Team. Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities certainly ...

Kaspersky Labs' search for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight, patched yesterday, began back in July. The Kaspersky researchers' curiosity was piqued by ...

Today Microsoft released their October Patch Tuesday updates that consists of 12 security updates, with eight of them being marked as critical due to vulnerabilities allowing remote code execution.