What is Microsoft Silverlight and why do I need it?

Anonymous
2010-06-30T03:58:53+00:00

Can someone explain the benefits of MS Silverlight (both Pros and Cons)? Sorry to ask and I might be able to figure it out if I had time to open it up and see exactly each feature does, but just from opening the program up for the first time; I'm not sure that I need it or what it is for exactly? Thanks in advance for any insight someone can give me.

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2010-06-30T15:18:04+00:00

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:58:53 +0000, xy_jeff wrote:

Can someone explain the benefits of MS Silverlight (both Pros and Cons)? Sorry to ask and I might be able to figure it out if I had time to open it up and see exactly each feature does, but just from opening the program up for the first time; I'm not sure that I need it or what it is for exactly? Thanks in advance for any insight someone can give me.

You need it if you want to go to web pages that use it. If you don't,

you don't need it.

As far as I'm concerned, you should have it, since it gives you the

ability to go to web pages you might want.

Ken Blake

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2010-06-30T04:08:04+00:00

Hi,

Check this site :

Microsoft SilverLight - on left - Learn Why SilverLight is right for you.

http://www.silverlight.net/

Also there are tutorials there and even its own Community and Forums.

Hope this helps.

Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-04-17T21:13:15+00:00

    Basically, it's Microsoft's answer to Adobe flash.  So, if you're going to a website that requires it, you'll need it.   NBC used it for the Olympics and, more relevant to most, Netflix uses Silverlight.   I'll leave it up to you whether you need it or not.

    AHA! So that was part of the problem.

    Now the problem is that I have no traces of SL that I know of on an older installation, sure I removed it if I ever did install it yet like clockwork an update for it comes up every single time I use Windows Update and I cannot hide it.

    What's up with that?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-13T11:23:06+00:00

    what does silverlight do ?

    It is spyware and junk. Get rid of it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-11T18:13:56+00:00

    If it is so wonderful why does it crash all the time. For example every time I open my mail in hotmail, whether it is with IE or Google chrome. If it crashes in IE it does not allow me to compose mail

    Silverlight sounds like my experience with Windows 10. I loaded the free upgrade Windows 10. 

    Now, If I step away from my pc and it goes to sleep, it now crashes every time and gives me a count down 1 to 100 and then "blue screen" error code. Sometimes I can restart it and sometimes I have to wait overnight to be able to restart.

    Question - would you like a free Windows 10 down load too?

    signed - NomoreMS-free stuff, ever

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