Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie opened the MIX07 conference announcing that .NET technology is being paired up with Silverlight, Microsoft's cross-platform multi-browser plug-in for ...

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsoft's latest example of software plus service (S+S) -- a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming -- during his ...

Q: What is Silverlight, and do I need it? - Glen A: The Internet remains the biggest opportunity for companies that are jockeying for your eyeballs, and Silverlight is Microsoft's attempt to gain ...

The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac. Video: Silverlight in action Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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Remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application plug-in that competed with Adobe Flash before HTML5 pushed aside both? The introduction of OpenSilver this week by .NET software company ...

The difference between the two approaches is largely a reflection of the two companies' heritages. Microsoft's proposition is essentially "keep using your familiar software development technologies ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft's recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way forward ...

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 ...

Multiple sources have been suggesting to the CNET website that Microsoft may follow along the same lines as Adobe have with their mobile Flash player and scrap any further development of their ...

LAS VEGAS — As part of its foray into the Web design tools market, Microsoft Corp. is eschewing its usual tactics for encouraging or, as many of the companys critics would put it, strong-arming end ...