what is......

[Baz]

....silverlight.just another piece of microshaft rubbish?do we need it?

its on my sons new lappy and he wants to know if he can kill it

[Simon]

I've managed to live without it.  I don't even really know what it does. 

[Baz]

no I dont know either Simon, something like flash is it??   

[Noreen]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/08/silverlight_3_beta_review/
I believe that this isn't the latest version.

[Gary]

Silver light sites run really well, and so far its had less issues than Flash, but its not so used, if HTML5 takes off we could do without both tbh and just have video play natively in the browser which would be a god send with Adobes track record of late.