Microsoft is beta testing a new version of its Download Center site that makes use of its Silverlight browser plug-in technology Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of ...

Bill Gates uses the company's TechEd conference to show off updates to its Flash competitor, as well as other tools. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive ...

Microsoft is leveraging partners to promote Silverlight adoption and will continue to use the cross-platform plug-in more and more as part of its Web content delivery strategy In its quest to make its ...

As Microsoft made plain at its Professional Developers Conference last week, there's no end in sight to the list of new features and functionality it plans to add to Silverlight. Some developers who ...

The historic nature of this year’s presidential campaign is not lost on a core group of IT staff ramping up for the Democratic National Convention, to be held Aug. 25-28 in Denver. The excitement ...

Microsoft has built a new search application based on its Silverlight "Flash killer" technology. That application, code-named "Tafiti" (which is Swahili for "do research" or "to search" -- I've seen ...

Microsoft is reportedly using a modified version of the Silverlight toolset for its along-awaited Xbox TV update. The updated developer tools, codenamed Lakeview, are being utilised during the ...

Seeking an edge in the crowded rich Internet application technology space, Microsoft is officially launching on Friday its Silverlight 3 platform, featuring offline capabilities for running ...

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 ...

Silverlight, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system that powers Windows Vista, is Microsoft's attempt to trump Adobe's Flash technology by offering better-looking, more advanced ...

With the imminent release of Silverlight 2.0, developers and Web designers, particularly those already working in Microsoft IT environments, will have the first viable alternative technology to Adobe ...

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