Reviews of Microsoft Silverlight for Windows

1. 
   Zootopia3001

   Reviewing 5.0 (Mar 17, 2012)

   Can only give it three stars due to TONS of multilanguage entries left behind in registry with EACH security update. Took forever to delete them all. Hey Microsoft, give the option to do either English or Multilanguage install like SUN Java does. Me, I went back to Siverlight 4.0.60831.0 and won't update to version 5 unless forced to do so.
2. 
   FatBastard

   Reviewing 4.0.60129.0 (Feb 18, 2011)

   This thing is actually pretty good. It uses less CPU than Adobe Flash.
3. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 4.0.51204 (Dec 16, 2010)

   I only use it for web radio but if you disable it along with the wmp plugin, IE9 actually starts like a normal browser instead of like a gaming software. This wasn't working in anything but IE before this latest update.
4. 
   rodgerballard

   Reviewing 4.0.51204 (Dec 16, 2010)

   @soldier1st: not entirely true ...
   
   http://msdn.microsoft.co.../bb404700(v=VS.95).aspx
   
   "It is a cross-browser, cross-platform technology. It runs in all popular Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X."
   
   For the Linux crowd there is (with limitations in regard to protection):
   
   http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
   
   As to it being good or bad. My opinion is it gets the job done. I would rather see more standards based approaches when and where possible using technologies like these only when appropriate but I felt the need to provide accurate info.
5. 
   soldier1st

   Reviewing 4.0.50917.0 (Oct 2, 2010)

   Silverlight is alright but not the greatest as it is a Windows only, i would rather have something in a better language like Java or something else that is cross platform.

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