Edited sentence: Although there are versions of Silverlight for Linux and Macintosh, these to not support digital rights management, and cannot do so without the support of Microsoft.Hastings role in both Microsoft and Netflix has been regarded as a conflict of interest, the issue being that Netflix requires Microsoft specific technology Silverlight, thereby pressuring Netflix customers to convert to Internet Explorer under Windows.In 2009 Microsoft began to gradually cut off support for competing browsers and operating systems.In May 2007, Microsoft had marketed Silverlight as a multi-platform standard supporting Linux and Macintosh as well as Windows operating systems on a variety of browsers