
The simple and easy-to-use format Silverlight delivers is attractive to many users and programmers.Sitecore MVP,Microsoft and Sitecore certified solution architect, Sitecore MVP currently working at Gruden with 10 years experience, 6 years working with Sitecore (dating back to version 6). Another important feature for Silverlight is copyright management, as well as the in-browser preview. An important benefit of Microsoft Silverlight is the ability to support continuous streaming, even with limited bandwidth, making the video quality satisfactory. Silverlight also includes many advanced features, such as blocking operations for faster simultaneous access to data. These include using multiple threads to run background tasks and improving application responsiveness for the user. There are several practices that improve the performance of Silverlight-based applications. Therefore, Microsoft has ceased to promote it. In the video on demand (VOD) area, Silverlight is now redundant and can be successfully replaced with other technologies. Both Silverlight and Adobe Flash Player currently also support HTML5.

Silverlight is not required by an overwhelming majority of websites as mandatory, so it is only installed when the user really needs it.

Silverlight was used by Netflix, who consequently started looking for alternatives turning their attention towards pure HTML5 without any plug-ins. In 2012, Microsoft officially announced that Silverlight will no longer be developed, but the component will be supported until 2021. Silverlight helps developers achieve things that would be very difficult to implement in HTML. Microsoft Silverlight 5 introduces many new features including a significant improvement in image quality and performance.

Silverlight 5 is based on its previous release, Silverlight 4, which was used to create business applications and additional multimedia solutions.
