I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. 'Independent Advisors' work for contractors hired by Microsoft. 'Microsoft Agents' work for Microsoft Support. The Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin lets you access multimedia Silverlight content. Websites use Silverlight to deliver streaming video and other interactive features. Microsoft Silverlight for Mac, free and safe download. Lightweight plug-in; Streams high resolution and HD video; Smooth streaming support.

1. Install The Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in For Mac Windows 10

Click to expand.I predict this thread will grow to several hundred posts, minimum. To save you the time you would waste by reading all of them, here's the way it really is. Having MS products on your Mac will not damage it or cause you to be condemned to Hell. It is not a sign of moral turpitude and it does not mean that you want the terrorists to win.

It does not make you a traitor to your Mac or to your country. I've been using Silverlight since it was released for the Mac because some sites that I value require it. Others will tell you they would not visit those sites. They are ideological jerks who would cut off their noses to spite their faces. There is a definite upside to installing Silverlight-as you have learned, it enables you to view certain web sites that you would otherwise be unable to view.

Silverlight is absolutely transparent; it will not crash your Mac, eat up your ram, or send your credit card number to Belarus. You will not see it at work, though you have already seen the result of not having it for certain web sites. And that's the way it really is.

Click to expand.Yes, it's a means of building interactive content on the Web. Here are two examples: 1) Microsoft press release, January 16, 2009: 'WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ - Microsoft Corp. Today announced that the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has selected the company's Silverlight technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site at.'

2) New York Times, May 22, 2008: 'Please note that Times Reader for the Mac uses the Silverlight plugin. The installation process will prompt you to install Silverlight if you do not already have it on your computer. 'We hope you enjoy the enhanced reading experience and the ability to read The Times while offline.' Why not Flash, you ask?

I don't know. The evidence is, however, that MS is successfully pushing this technology and that not having it will limit what you can do on-line. The same could be said for any browser plug in, however, including Flash, QuickTime and Real. Click to expand.Yeah, this is a classic example of a case where a Wikipedia article is written by experts in the field for other experts in the field, rather than for a general audience. (See also: virtually every Wikipedia article on physics and math subjects.) In terms of intended use, Silverlight is basically Microsoft's answer to Flash. But while Flash evolved from a media player (that slowly got more sophisticated interactive capabilities), Silverlight is influenced more by desktop application development frameworks. From a technical perspective it's actually a pretty worthwhile effort, and I say this as someone who tends to be extremely skeptical of everything Microsoft does.

Click to expand.You would also see interactive maps, slide shows, videos (including YouTube, which seems to sort of be catching on a little bit), news stories, slide shows, election results, e-cards, on-line tutorials and other on-line training, crosswords, books, and a host of other content that is growing every day. It isn't all ads. I'm with you on that-I don't enjoy (most) ads. I'm not a neurologist or vision expert, so I don't know exactly how this works, but I don't see ads unless I look for them. Could it be that on-line advertising obeys the laws of quantum mechanics? What you are doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face, pure and simple. Unless it is your aim to increasingly isolate yourself from web content.

What is your plan for the day when 99% of web pages require some sort of plug-in? Will you sequester yourself in an underground bunker at some undisclosed location, perhaps? And how do you manage print media, if at all?

Do you employ someone who censors it before you read it? How do you deal with radio or television, if at all? Sorry to be so nosy, but observing and analyzing extreme and bizarre human behavior is a hobby of mine. Click to expand.The Wikipedia definition of Trojan Horse is widely accepted: 'In the context of computing and software, a Trojan horse, also known as a trojan, is a form of malware that appears to perform a desirable function but in fact performs undisclosed malicious functions that allow unauthorized access to the host machine.'

Install The Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in For Mac Windows 10

The notion that Flash or Silverlight represent Trojan Horse technology is ludicrous and paranoid. I've been using interactive web technologies for years.

When do you suppose I will notice the 'undisclosed malicious functions that allow unauthorized access' to my Mac? I'm thinking just prior to The Rapture, so that I will be busy trying to fix my Mac and I will miss The Rapture. See my reply to Mr. Lindsay concerning cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and bizarre-I should have added irrational-human behavior. Or behaviour.

Click to expand.You don't get around much. Here on the left side of the Atlantic we have a little service called Netflix.

Monthly fee, unlimited video rentals, including HD. The selection is current and vast. In addition, a smaller number of movies (about 12,000, I think) are available for streaming to computers. Very nice when away from home with the MacBook Pro. Requires Silverlight. New York Times, a little newspaper we have over here.

It is probably the best newspaper in the world. If (or when) the print editions of the Times and other newspapers disappear Silverlight and similar technologies will be more and more important-though admittedly, only to those who want to read the news.

Ian Gregory: You don't get around much. Here on the left side of the Atlantic we have a little service called Netflix. Monthly fee, unlimited video rentals, including HD. The selection is current and vast. In addition, a smaller number of movies (about 12,000, I think) are available for streaming to computers.

Very nice when away from home with the MacBook Pro. Requires Silverlight. New York Times, a little newspaper we have over here. It is probably the best newspaper in the world. If (or when) the print editions of the Times and other newspapers disappear Silverlight and similar technologies will be more and more important-though admittedly, only to those who want to read the news. Click to expand.

Read The NYT most days, no Silverlight, don't think I'm unable to navigate and see/hear all I need without it. Don't want/use Netflix in part due to their being very slow and stingy wrt HD disks, in part because I want to stay with d/l'ed content. As to small sites where the only way to get critical info is to use MS Silverlight- why that's almost too stupid/beyond words- but understand that if you have to, you have to because they're not going to redesign the site at this point!