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MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do With Silverlight 2 (Part 6 of 6): Adaptive Streaming (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast highlights adaptive streaming, which is an addition to the rich media capabilities of Silverlight 2. Adaptive streaming enables Silverlight 2 applications to examine the capabilities of the client computer, like CPU and bandwidth, and...
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
Ozzie takes Microsoft beyond Windows
News The parade of announcements surrounding Silverlight, including a video-streaming service, brings to life some significant changes in the way Microsoft designs software. Microsoft also introduced Silverlight Streaming, a service, now in alpha...
[May 3, 2007, 17:26]
Microsoft invests in online TV firm Move Networks
News In March, Microsoft said it would begin supporting Move Networks's video-streaming technology within its own cross-browser video platform, Silverlight, which lets publishers customise navigation and ads.
[August 26, 2008, 8:14]
Akamai seeks to bring HDTV to the web
News Akamai on Tuesday unveiled a network for high-definition video designed to deliver content via Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight and Apple's iPhone. Akamai's HD platform, which will be demonstrated on Tuesday, will be designed for what the...
[September 29, 2009, 14:49]
Microsoft moves Flash rival into spotlight
News Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name — Silverlight — and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the web. On Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
IE9, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 in the PDC spotlight
News Also on Wednesday, Scott Guthrie, vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, told attendees that Silverlight 4 is intended to be a major release, with enhanced media streaming features, tools for building business applications, and...
[November 19, 2009, 12:46]
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment However, it does appear that it will also be possible to steam video of the Olympic Games from MSN using Silverlight, rather than Adobe Flash. This is presumably available on Windows versions which support Silverlight.
[July 4, 2008, 12:55]
Microsoft shares vision for Silverlight success
News By next year, half of all devices connected to the internet will have Silverlight, says Microsoft's Walid Abu-Hadba. Abu-Habda's comments came following Microsoft's launch on Friday of Silverlight 3, the latest version of its technology for rich...
[July 13, 2009, 9:07]
Adobe brings high definition to Flash videos
News But Microsoft is challenging Flash's dominance in web video with Silverlight. Microsoft has signed on large video publishers to use Silverlight, including MLB.com. Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video and another video compression...
[August 21, 2007, 8:37]
Google demos Gmail mobile web app
News Also up and coming are a browserless relative of Flash from Adobe called AIR and a Flash rival from Microsoft called Silverlight. There's also Silverlight from Microsoft. Asked about AIR, Gundotra said, "I think Adobe has got some great products...
[April 6, 2009, 9:28]
Adobe plans speedier Flash Media Server
News On Tuesday, Microsoft launched Silverlight 1.0, its challenger to Adobe's Flash Player, and said that a number of high-volume websites are using Silverlight. Flash Media Server 3, which streams multimedia content, such as videos, will be faster and...
[September 7, 2007, 14:18]
Silverlight goes Linux with Moonlight 1.0
News This means that Moonlight ships with support for the media codecs that are part of Silverlight 2.0 and supports adaptive streaming. The Linux-compatible version of Microsoft's Silverlight, a plug-in for playing rich web media, has been released as...
[December 3, 2008, 15:19]
Silverlight 2 announced
Blog announced that we'll all be able to download Silverlight 2 tomorrow. Silverlight 2 will include the following features - cut straight from the press release, kids, with adjectives and unqualified hyperbole removed.
[October 13, 2008, 18:07]
Video: Microsoft's Silverlight in action
News From Mix07: Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie, general manager of developer platforms, discuss important features of the new Silverlight application for web developers, including Silverlight Streaming.
[May 1, 2007, 17:12]
Microsoft Silverlight coming to Nokia mobiles
News Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
Microsoft extends Silverlight beyond Windows
News With Silverlight, people can dynamically reshape video screens as they are streaming, said Justin Shaffer, chief architect of MLB.com. Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add...
[May 1, 2007, 17:33]
Microsoft's Ozzie spearheads drive to online services
News On services, is the Silverlight Streaming service something that we can expect to see more of from Microsoft? For a taste, take a look at Silverlight Streaming, a service introduced at the Mix07 conference in Las Vegas, where Microsoft will store...
[May 1, 2007, 12:57]
SharePoint 2010
Blog There’s also support for Silverlight, both for video streaming and for your own video streaming components. With a public beta still a few weeks away, Microsoft used its recent SharePoint conference in Las Vegas to unveil the upcoming 2010 release...
[October 22, 2009, 21:53]
Share(Point) The Developer Love
Blog Components include a Silverlight organisational chart browser and a pre-built Silverlight media player - with streaming part of the SharePoint server. You'll also be able to use .NET's LINQ query language alongside Silverlight for user interface...
[October 21, 2009, 10:16]
Developing for Windows Live
Blog If you’re a developer, then Logan is your man for Microsoft Live and Silverlight. Logan’s second favourite subject (after Live) is Silverlight. This product is billed as being able to significantly reduce development and deployment costs as it...
[September 11, 2007, 18:42]
