17 Facts About Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich web applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash.

Microsoft Silverlight was used to provide video streaming for the NBC coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and the 2008 conventions for both major United States political parties.

Silverlight was used by Amazon Video and Netflix for their instant video streaming services, but Netflix said in its Tech Blog in 2013 that, since Microsoft had announced Silverlight's end-of-life, they would be moving to HTML5 video.

In 2012, Microsoft deprecated Silverlight for HTML5 in Windows 8, but as of the beginning of 2015, it was not clear what Microsoft's official position was on Silverlight's future.

Microsoft Silverlight provides a retained mode graphics system similar to Windows Presentation Foundation, and integrates multimedia, graphics, animations, and interactivity into a single run-time environment.

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Microsoft Silverlight can be used to create Windows Sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista.

Microsoft Silverlight makes it possible to dynamically load Extensible Markup Language content that can be manipulated through a Document Object Model (DOM) interface, a technique that is consistent with conventional Ajax techniques.

Cross-platform Mozilla Firefox support for Microsoft Silverlight was removed in Firefox 52 released in March 2017 when Mozilla removed support for NPAPI plugins, bringing it in-line with the removal of NPAPI plugin support in Google Chrome.

Microsoft Silverlight requires an x86 processor with Streaming SIMD Extensions support.

Microsoft Silverlight was not available on Android or iOS, the most prevalent operating systems on the mobile market.

Microsoft Silverlight was the primary development environment for Windows Phone and is based on Microsoft Silverlight 4.

NET languages can work with Microsoft Silverlight, provided they can target the Microsoft Silverlight CoreCLR for hosting the application, instead of the.

Microsoft Silverlight applications are debugged in a manner similar to ASP.

Visual Studio's CLR Remote Cross Platform Debugging feature can be used to debug Microsoft Silverlight applications running on a different platform as well.

An April 2007 PC World report, suggested that Microsoft intended to release certain parts of Silverlight source code as open source software, but a week later Sam Ramji, director of platform technology strategy at Microsoft, contradicted the rumors by confirming that the company had no plans to open Silverlight.

Advocates of free software are concerned Silverlight could be another example of Microsoft's embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy.

Microsoft Silverlight's concerns are based on "examples from history" where he said that Microsoft had launched products with promises of ongoing cross-platform compatibility that no longer apply, for example Internet Explorer for UNIX and Windows Media Player for Mac.