What is Silverlight, and do I need it?

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Unless my computer will stop working if I do not install Silverlight, then MS can go to the "hot spot". As far as I am concerned, most of their "updates" are just another form of "phone home" spyware. I do NOT trust MS as far as I "can throw them" because they do NOT trust loyal PAYING customers and insist on you "passing" a security check every time you want to update. This and other actions by MS are just going to drive people to other OS's.

Reading the agreement silverlight states it tracks and reports websites you visit. does it report every site or just the silverlight encoded sites?

M.S. Silverlight it is not just annoying, it breaks some basic windows functions and they never fixed it properly.
I had to remove it from all my systems.

this article wa very informative and helped me a lot in deciding what to do with it, and I liked the reply by T.july 16, 2008 re update security centre. Thanks for that. Like everything else microsoft is a good product but it has become so big wit so many changing products its not able to be managed properly anymore and what are minor details to them but big to the end user gets lots in the system, thus inexperienced people like myself are getting updates and don't know what to do with them or how to fix them without research. This forum site by microsft is one of the best and thanks for that too. Like me with 'always learning' microsoft is no doubt 'always trying to improve' but is getting lost in its massiveness as well. Microsoft is not alone in that regard but they seem to be doing a good job in providing free support. thanks

my computer has silverlite and .net do i need both its just a home computer email-games web surfing

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