Contents tagged with IIS Media Pack
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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 about Smooth Streaming, usually along these lines:
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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 Throttling, and Web Playlists.
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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.
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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 Pack, and Windows Media Services 2008 in a slimmed-down version of Windows Server 2008 to deliver media to the Internet. Whether you are a hoster building a Silverlight-enabled Web server farm, an enterprise administrator increasing your Web video capacity, or a small company putting up your first media server, Windows Web Server 2008 provides a great low-cost option for delivering your content.