Microsoft Silverlight is a software that usually gets installed after its randomly advertised through another Microsoft product.  If you install the new Microsoft Office 2007 suite, chances are a pop-up will advertise also installing Microsoft Silverlight.

What is Microsoft Silverlight?  It’s a flash player.  Just like Adobe has the Adobe Flash Player, Silverlight is Microsoft’s competing software.  Is it a worthy software to install?  Heck, no!  the only time you are forced to install Silverlight is when using NetFlix for instant viewing of movies.  Other than that, stick with Adobe’s software - it’s quicker and seems to work fine.  Maybe Silverlight is slower because it has some security software package built into it.  Silverlight is not needed, but if you feel like exploring, go for it.

It’s a free software like Adobe’s Flash Player.  But, free doesn’t mean it’s good.  There’s not anything in particular we dislike about it except for Microsoft again playing second fiddle to a software that already worked perfectly fine before.

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