Microsoft Silverlight: Installation Instructions, System Requirements and Uninstalliation

In this practise sesson, we are going to learn how to install and uninstall Microsoft Silverlight (an application for web browsers similar to Adobe Flash Player).

The installations instructions are very similar for all web browser, even though in the Silverlight web this process is explained in two different ways for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. In any case, if we want to install this program, we must to download the Silverlight.exe file and run it; and if we are running a Windows Vista operating system, we will must confirm our installation permissions. Once the installation program is running, we must read the license agreement (tht thing that we never read), click "Install now" and restart our web browser. For finish the installation, we must verify it using the Silverlight site.

In the System Requirements page, we can see what web browser and what operative system is compatible with Silverlight. Note that this program is available with any Windows operating system over Windows XP and any Macintosh operating system over 10.4.11 version, but there's not any UNIX operative system compatible.

To uninstall Microsoft Silverlight it's the same process in Windows XP and Windows Vista: just go to control pane, after closing every running web browser, and click on Programs; then, select Microsoft Silverlight and choose "Uninstall". The main difference is that if we are using Microsoft Vista, the Operating System will ask us for some permissions. Uninstall this pluggin in a Mac operating system it-s too a very simple process; just close your web browser, go to your hard disk, open the library, open the "Internet pluggins" folder, and search a file called Silverlight.pluggin. Then, delete it from your computer (moving to your thrash and emptying it). And if this doesn't works it's because we are using and older Microsoft Silverlight version.

Anyway, I think it's better to use Adobe Flash Player; it's faster, lighter and therefore better, and it's compatible with more operating systems and web browsers. I'm sorry Microsoft, but web browsers are a terrain not made for you. Keep making awesome videogames and huge consoles, that one occurs you better.