Microsoft Silverlight
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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]
Developer(s) | Microsoft Corporation |
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Initial release | September 5, 2007; 16 years ago (2007-09-05) |
Final release | 5.1.50918.0[1] (January 15, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-01-15)) [±] |
Preview release | None [±] |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Symbian OS[2][3] |
Platform | IA-32 and x86-64[4] |
Type | Application framework, run-time environment and multimedia framework |
License | Freeware |
Website | microsoft.com/silverlight |
Microsoft terminated support for Silverlight on Internet Explorer 11 (the last remaining web browser still supporting Silverlight) on October 12, 2021.