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Comparing Adaptive Streaming Technologies

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....

Silverlight nominated for a Crunchies 2009 award

Microsoft Silverlight has been nominated for a 2009 Crunchies Award. Learn more here and vote!...

Overcoming the Challenges Enterprises Face with Streaming Video

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...

FAQs on using IIS Smooth Streaming with the Apple iPhone

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...

Webinar: How to Deliver True HD with Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming

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...

IIS Media Services 3.0, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, has been released

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...

Smooth Streaming specifications now posted on-line

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...

Windows Media Services 2008 SP2

New builds of Windows Media Services 2008 that are compatible with Windows Server 2008 Service Pack (SP) 2 are now available. ...

Windows Media Services 2008 R2 Release Candidate

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...

Smooth Streaming – What, Why, When, Where, and How

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...

IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released

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...

Media delivery options in the Web Platform Installer

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...

Sourcing from a multicast broadcast using Windows Media Services

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...

Delivering audio and video media with Windows Web Server 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...

Microsoft at NAB

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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Chris Knowlton is a Senior Product Manager for the media server platform at Microsoft. He first joined Microsoft in 2002 to work as a Program Manager on Windows Media Services. By training, Chris is a mechanical engineer, educated at Michigan State University. Before coming to Microsoft, he spent many years managing projects and programs in various markets, from industrial laser tooling to Internet caching appliances.

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Adaptive streaming to the iPhone is coming in IIS Media Services 4.0!