Many developers are worried about the compatibility of Silverlight with Metro-style applications. This project shows that those fears are overblown. Windows 8, which was introduced at the Microsoft ...

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Seadragon, which was demonstrated as a Microsoft Live Labs project at TED last year, is the impressive technology behind Photosynth, a complicated piece of software from Microsoft Research that has ...

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BlueFinity International, part of the Mpower1 group of companies, has announced that support for Microsoft Silverlight within mv.NET Solution Objects will be available with the formal release of ...

Update: Listen to our podcast interview with Silverlight product manager Brian Goldfarb at TalkCrunch. Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the ...

As expected, Silverlight 3 was announced today at MIX09, this year’s iteration of Microsoft’s annual conference for web developers, designers, and enthusiasts. While the keynote that just finished was ...

Microsoft has unveiled the release candidate of its Silverlight 4 browser plug-in and outlined its developer strategy for Windows Phone 7 Series, which puts Silverlight applications at the heart of ...

Microsoft is attempting to quell the notion that Silverlight is becoming less strategically important to the company as it sets its sights on HTML5. The dearth of Silverlight-related information at ...

MySpace announced on Monday that developers can now build MySpace applications using Silverlight, Microsoft’s plug-in for developing multimedia and rich Internet applications. The companies also said ...

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Microsoft's next iteration of Silverlight brings with it some big improvements to media handling and power efficiency. It also promises to make it easier, and faster to build apps. Josh Lowensohn ...