Microsoft Silverlight

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Microsoft Silverlight
Developer(s)Microsoft Corporation
Initial releaseSeptember 5, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-09-05)
Final release5.1.50918.0[1] (January 15, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-01-15)) [±]
Preview releaseNone [±]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS, and Symbian OS[2][3]
PlatformIA-32 and x86-64[4]
TypeApplication framework, run-time environment and multimedia framework
LicenseFreeware
Websitemicrosoft.com/silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued[5][6] application framework designed for writing and running rich internet applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, later versions supported multimedia, graphics, and animation, and gave support to developers for CLI languages and development tools. Silverlight was one of the two application development platforms for Windows Phone, but web pages using Silverlight did not run on the Windows Phone or Windows Mobile versions of Internet Explorer, as there was no Silverlight plugin for Internet Explorer on those platforms.[7]

Microsoft terminated support for Silverlight on Internet Explorer 11 (the last remaining web browser still supporting Silverlight) on October 12, 2021.

  1. ^ "Microsoft Silverlight Release History". Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  2. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions § System requirements". Microsoft Silverlight product page. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  3. ^ Perez, Sarah (March 22, 2010). "Silverlight for Symbian Plugin Now Available". Cool Stuff – A Channel 9 Blog. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved November 4, 2010.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Get Silverlight | Microsoft Silverlight > System Requirements". Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  5. ^ "Silverlight End of Support". support.microsoft.com. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  6. ^ Smith, Jerry (July 2, 2015). "Moving to HTML5 Premium Media - Microsoft Edge Dev Blog". blogs.windows.com. Retrieved October 1, 2018. we encourage companies that are using Silverlight for media to begin the transition to DASH/MSE/CENC/EME based designs
  7. ^ "Windows Phone - A Stack Exchange Proposal". area51.stackexchange.com.