Bill Gates uses the company's TechEd conference to show off updates to its Flash competitor, as well as other tools. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive ...

OpenSilver, an open source alternative to the long-gone Microsoft Silverlight, continues to add new language support to its XAML-based web application framework. After adding support for VB.NET (in ...

Microsoft Silverlight is a component in many web browsers that helps them stream and display video, music, clickable menus, and other types of "rich media" content. Launched in 2007, it was intended ...

A bunch of new files were quietly added to the Windows 11 System32 folder and they seem to suggest Microsoft may be looking to ditch UWP in favor of XAML and Win32-based shell on Windows 11. Microsoft ...