Quick clarification. Flash and Silverlight are obviously competitors when it comes to videos and general features (vector graphics, animation, ect) but the point of the post is more to think about the ...

Adobe's ubiquitous Flash has never had serious competition, which allowed it to become the dominant technology for Web multimedia, even though its complexity causes some headaches for developers. Yet ...

Microsoft's new Silverlight technology will engage the average corporate Web developer more than ever before when it comes to creating rich, animated online content and applications, the CRN Test ...

HTML5, with its promises of plug-in free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, ...

At Microsoft’s MIX conference today, the company Silverlight 3.0, a new version of its rich-media Web plug-in, that includes new multimedia capabilities that aim to it to parity with Adobe Flash, it ...

When Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight, he is usually having one of two types of conversations. One is centered on market share and the fact that Adobe Systems' Flash is nearly ...

When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight RIA (rich interactive application) platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has ...

Microsoft will no longer play under the bright lights of Major League Baseball, which has decided to throw out the vendor’s Silverlight browser add-on in favor of Adobe’s Flash. Microsoft will no ...

Adobe’s news this week that it will no longer develop Flash for mobile browsers is being celebrated as a victory for HTML5 and the notion that interactive web experiences should rely on common ...

I thought I was being clear in my review of Silverlight, but let me spell out the answers to a few of the questions that have come up in comments. Q: Do you think that Silverlight is the heir apparent ...

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 ...

MLB.tv's Web player moving from flash in 2018 season Other holdouts: Mint.com, Optimum cable, Logitech's Harmony remote If you go to the right sites on the Web, it’s 2007 all over again. These special ...