What is Microsoft Silverlight 5?

In depth

A closer look at Microsoft Silverlight 5

Microsoft Silverlight is a free and programmable web browser plugin, which enables interactive media features such as animation, audio-video playback and vector graphics, so you can experience rich and vibrant Internet applications. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.It supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on Mac OS or Windows OS.

Requirements

System requirements

Mac OS X

Verdict

Should you download Microsoft Silverlight 5?

Microsoft Silverlight 5 runs on Mac and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 14.53 MB. We’ve catalogued it under General.

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