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 broadcast ...

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Amazon is becoming the latest company to start moving beyond Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to adopt native HTML5 web video. The company said today that it has begun to roll out a new HTML5 web ...

Microsoft has already announced that its new Microsoft Edge web browser in Windows 10 will not be using many of the features that were a part of its old Internet Explorer browsers. That includes ...

Microsoft is hard at work trying to encourage adoption of its new Silverlight player. The software giant's video player saw a huge boost after working as the exclusive player for NBC's Beijing Olympic ...

LONDON and REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 4, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. and BSkyB announce that Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady technologies are enabling Sky Player TV, Sky’s online TV service. Launched today, ...

The first major deployment of Microsoft’s Silverlight technology went live Tuesday, with the Web site for Major League Baseball using version 1.0 of the browser for interactive video content. MLB.com ...

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 ...

As Microsoft Corp. releases its Silverlight 2.0 media player tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for its free, would-be Adobe Flash -killer. Bloggers compareSilverlight to Adobe Flash. As a ...

The online DVD rental site is unable to pinpoint the cause of glitches plaguing users of its streaming service. Many users blame Microsoft. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for ...

As Microsoft Corp. releases its Silverlight 2.0 rich media browser plug-in tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for the free, would-be Adobe Flash-killer. As a result, the software maker is ...

The first major deployment of Microsoft's Silverlight technology went live Tuesday, with the Web site for Major League Baseball using version 1.0 of the browser for interactive video content. MLB.com ...