Silverlight is compatible with the following operating systems: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows server 2003, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Mac OS 10.5.7.
This makes Silverlight a must have on your PC. If you want to access a rich internet application that uses Silverlight, you won’t be able to do so unless you have Silverlight. Should said developer choose Silverlight, he will have access to a powerful means of creating rich internet applications.įrom a regular user point of view, Flash is a tool you just need to have on your machine – just like Silverlight. And according to data from August 2011, site usage of Adobe Flash was around 27% while 0.3% sites used Silverlight.Īs Silverlight and Flash offer similar functionality, it is up to the developer to choose which one to choose. According to figures from July 2010, Flash was installed on 95.36% of browsers, while Silverlight was installed on 53.54%. In terms of penetration, Flash continues to be the market leader. Microsoft has not been able to do this so far. That’s because Silverlight was very much similar to Flash as far as functionality was concerned and because Microsoft was hoping to dethrone Flash with Silverlight. When it was first rolled out to the public, Microsoft’s Silverlight application framework was touted as being a Flash killer.
