Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a free and compact web browser plugin for rendering rich media content such as vector graphics, animations, audio and videos playback on desktop, portable PC’s and mobile devices as well. It aims much like Adobe Flash. It was first released in 2007 by Microsoft Corporation. This emphasizes on improving web interface for a better user experience.

Silverlight provides more adaptable programming model. It supports VB, C#, AJAX, Ruby and Python. It can also integrate with existing Web applications. Microsoft Sliverlight is based on .NET framework.

It supports text based graphics and multimedia stuff. Due to text support in its applications, search engines can access it easily and indexes content better than without text content.

Silverlight Features:

• High quality content rendering including audio and videos.

• WMV (Windows Media Video), WMA (Windows Media Audio) and MP3 files can be reproduced without installing any extra component.

• Supports webcam and microphone.

• Video decoding acceleration capability.

Microsoft Silverlight is a cost effective and fast plugin for delivery of high quality video to all popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and others. It is available for both Windows and Mac operating system. It’s commonly available in Windows as an optional update. If you don’t see such updates, chances are it is already installed in your computer. In most cases, it can be downloaded as an update component but you can also download it yourself separately. It’s free. Download and explore powerful its features.

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/