Silverlight (ver 4.0.50401.0) Abandoned Freeware Microsoft Silverlight is their proprietary version of Adobe Flash. Silverlight requires at least a Pentium III processor (it uses the SSE extensions), and that the Win2k Update Rollup KB891861 be installed. Version 4 is the last version that is compatible with Internet Explorer 6. Silverlight is NOT officially supported by Firefox running on a Win2k system. Opera does NOT support Silverlight.