At the Microsoft PDC, the company detailed future plans for its Silverlight platform, including offline capabilities and richer graphics support A Microsoft official cited on Tuesday improvements ...

But Microsoft said adoption of Silverlight has accelerated, with more than one in three Internet devices having installed the earlier Silverlight 2 release since its release about nine months ago.

Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight used to be incredibly popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. Almost no major ...