Silverlight was Microsoft's attempt to compete with Adobe Flash. It only ever was used on a few Microsoft web sites. Microsoft finally gave up and announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2012. In 2013, Microsoft announced that they had ceased development of Silverlight except for patches and bugfixes. More @Wikipedia
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