Feb 02, 2010
Are you wondering how various adaptive streaming technologies compare? A new comparison chart of the latest technologies from Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple may provide the answers....
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Tags: mediaSilverlightSmooth StreamingIIS Media ServicesAdaptive Streaming
Jan 03, 2010
Microsoft Silverlight has been nominated for a 2009 Crunchies Award. Learn more here and vote!...
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Dec 08, 2009
On Thursday, December 10 th , 2009, please join me for a free live Web broadcast on ways to use new and existing media technologies to solve video delivery challenges in the enterprise. If you are considering how to deploy high-quality live and on-demand...
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Tags: mediaWindows Media ServicesSilverlightIIS News ItemSmooth StreamingIIS Media ServicesLive Smooth Streaming
Dec 01, 2009
At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on November 18th, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie announced support for adaptive streaming to the iPhone from the next release of IIS Media Services . Here are some Frequently...
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Tags: mediaSmooth StreamingIIS Media ServicesiPhone
Oct 14, 2009
On Thursday, October 15th, we will be presenting a webinar entitled "How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and Smooth Streaming." During the one-hour webinar, we'll cover the following topics... What Smooth Streaming is and why it is the future of online...
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Oct 12, 2009
What Just Happened? We just released IIS Media Services 3.0, a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate...
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Tags: medianewsIIS News ItemWeb PlaylistsBit Rate ThrottlingSmooth StreamingIIS Media ServicesLive Smooth StreamingAdvanced Logging
Sep 08, 2009
Smooth Streaming and Live Smooth Streaming , both part of IIS Media Services 3.0, have been generating a lot of interest from content owners who want to provide a seamless viewing experience up to 1080p for their end users. Even in the Beta stage of Live...
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Tags: medianewsSmooth StreamingIIS Media ServicesLive Smooth StreamingSpecification
Jun 22, 2009
New builds of Windows Media Services 2008 that are compatible with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack (SP) 2 are now available. ...
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Jun 16, 2009
Last week, we released an updated version of Windows Media Services (WMS) for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate. Whether you are streaming content to Windows Media Player, Silverlight, or another Windows Media-compatible player, this latest release...
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Feb 17, 2009
Since we announced our new IIS Smooth Streaming extension last October with Akamai , we've been spending a lot of time engaging with very-interested customers and partners. In the course of these discussions, we hear a lot of frequently asked questions...
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Tags: mediaWindows Media ServicesSilverlightExpression EncoderIIS Media PackSmooth Streaming
Nov 07, 2008
Following up on our Smooth Streaming announcement last week, today we released IIS Media Pack 1.0! This first release of the IIS Media Pack features two IIS 7.0 extensions that focus on the intelligent delivery of video and audio to end users: Bit Rate...
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Tags: mediaIIS News ItemWeb PlaylistsBit Rate ThrottlingIIS Media Pack
Oct 16, 2008
Yesterday, we released the new Microsoft Web Application Installer, or Web AI, at www.microsoft.com/web . This tool for IIS7 allows you to simply install and get running with some of the most popular PHP and ASP.NET open source and community applications...
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Jul 14, 2008
A few folks have recently had questions about how to do sourcing of a video stream when using multicast with Windows Media Services (WMS). There are two basic scenarios that we often see: Unicast edge server sourcing from a multicast broadcast on an origin...
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Tags: mediaWindows Media Services
Apr 29, 2008
Questions from customers on the floor of the NAB 2008 Show underscored again for me that many customers are interested in delivering digital media with Windows Web Server 2008 . Why? Because for $469, you can get the power of IIS 7.0 , the new IIS Media...
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Tags: mediaWindows Media ServicesSilverlightMedia PackIIS Media Pack
Apr 10, 2008
A number of us from Microsoft will be meeting with customers and staffing the booth at the NAB Show again this year, including folks who work on Windows Media Services 2008 , IIS 7.0 Media Pack , Silverlight 2 , Expression Studio 2 , Interactive Media...
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