MS Confirms VXtreme Buy
News Paul Maritz, group vice president of platforms and applications at Microsoft, said the VXtreme technology will provide future versions of NetShow with the "scalability to handle multiple bit rates and bandwidths .for intranets as well as the...
[August 5, 1997, 17:32]
MS Spells Out Stream Of Things To Come
News Peter Bell, Microsoft UK product manager for NetShow and SiteServer, said that the technology it acquired with the purchase of VXtreme announced yesterday, will be incorporated in the Site Server 3.0 Web site management and electronic commerce...
[August 6, 1997, 10:51]
MS Streams Ahead With NetShow 2.0, New Purchase
News Microsoft will today take another step forward in streaming video over the Internet by announcing a new version of its NetShow conferencing software and plans to acquire or take an investment in VXtreme, a one-year-old Silicon Valley startup.
[August 5, 1997, 15:19]
Quotes Of The Week, August 4-8
News The most important technology we're getting from VXtreme is the ability to reach a broad audience through support for multiple bit rates When you encode the stream you don't have to choose the bit rate.
[August 8, 1997, 15:29]
MS' Gregory Sees One Streaming Standard
News Gregory said he was unaware of any Microsoft plans to purchase another streaming company, VXtreme. "From a Microsoft point of view the motivation is to avoid a standards battle," Gregory said. If you look at our acquisitions of Comcast and WebTV we...
[July 23, 1997, 16:07]
