Jun 25, 2009
Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising at this...
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Tags: IISsilverlightScott Guthrieadvertisingmediaxbox 360
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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Tags: mediaWindows Media ServicesSilverlightnews
May 11, 2009
It’s Streaming Media East this week. Alas, I’m racing towards a book deadline, and so am skipping the show for the first time in years. I miss it; it’s long been one my favorite shows of the year, and an extremely productive place to meet with customers...
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Tags: IISsilverlightmulticastEnterprisesilverlight 2Windows Media ServicescodeplexQumu
May 07, 2009
Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview , dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming . Deep Zoom is also...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingSilverlight 3IISsilverlightmoonlightDeep ZoomNovellMono
May 02, 2009
IIS Product Unit Manager Mai-Lan has come up with a number of video podcasts which give information on how to work with the Web PI and the Web Application Gallery . These videos can be found here: 1. Real World IIS: Finding and Installing Web Platform...
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Tags: Web PIVideosIIS 7MicrosoftSilverlight
May 02, 2009
So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09 . They were invited to do a code-off with three...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingIISsilverlightExpression EncoderTim HeuerNigel ParkerArturo ToldeoUGC
May 01, 2009
Our friends at CDNetworks announced their adoption of Smooth Streaming last week. And now they’ve have made a very cool new Smooth Streaming demo site: http://www.nextcdn.com/Silverlight.htm . It builds on the SmoothHD and IIS.net demos with a very nice...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingSmoothHD.comIISsilverlightCDNCDNetworks
Apr 28, 2009
CDNetworks, a Korea-based CDN has introduced support for Smooth Streaming and it looks great! You can check it out for yourself by visiting http://www.nextsmooth.com . What’s particularly nice is the demo player shown above. You can see high-quality movie...
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Tags: videomediaMicrosoftsmooth+streamingiissilverlight