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We just reported on Microsoft’s early previews of IE10, where the core concepts centralize around improving the browser’s”new web standards” approach and compatibility. This means that CSS 3 and HTML 5 are both going to be smoother, faster, and simply better as Internet Explorer continues development. However, pushing for these new web standards also has a peculiar drawback for Microsoft: it threatens other company products, such as Silverlight. As HTML 5 becomes far more capable, Silverlight becomes far less necessary; while the unique advantages (such as smooth streaming and digital rights management) of the Microsoft alternative to flash were once...

Rumors have been swirling throughout the industry that Microsoft may be finished with Silverlight. A recent PC World post challenges those rumors and features a reference to a blog post by Microsoft’s (News - Alert) servers and tools division chief, Bob Muglia, that describes the company’s future with Silverlight as bright and promising. "Make no mistake; we'll continue to invest in Silverlight and enable developers to build great apps and experiences with it in the future," Muglia wrote in the post. It seems Muglia was using the post to respond to reactions of an earlier interview he had done with...

Microsoft’s Silverlight client may have finally reached critical mass, with installation on more than 60 percent of all Internet devices, according to one Microsoft exec. Brad Becker, director of product management for rich client platforms at Microsoft, told us in a phone interview that the rich Internet application plugin has seen strong momentum recently, with the percentage of Internet devices the Silverlight client has been installed on increasing by a third — to 60 percent from 45 percent — in just the last four months. The news that Silverlight has finally surpassed the 50 percent-mark comes on the heels of...

The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day --including weekends-- to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight. Needless to say, we believe that Silverlight is a fantastic development platform, and its .NET-based version is incredibly interesting and as Linux/Unix users we wanted to both get access to content produced with it and to use Linux as our developer platform for Silverlight-powered web sites. Am now on...