JW WMV Player For Silverlight
Downloads The JW WMV Player (built for Microsoft Silverlight) is a simple yet flexible player for displaying Windows Media streams, video and audio on your website. While not yet widely installed and not as feature-rich as Flash, Silverlight offers an...
[February 19, 2008, 4:31]
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]
Microsoft Silverlight Coming To Nokia Mobiles
News Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year. Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic...
[March 4, 2008, 11:43]
Adobe Brings High Definition To Flash Videos
News Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video and another video compression standard based on Windows Media called VC-1. But Microsoft is challenging Flash's dominance in web video with Silverlight.
[August 21, 2007, 8:37]
Microsoft Extends Silverlight Beyond Windows
News A number of Microsoft partners showed off how they used Silverlight and the software giant's design and development tools to create media-based interactive applications. MLB.com, for example, plans to launch a Silverlight media player this summer...
[May 1, 2007, 17:33]
Microsoft Expression Media Encoder Preview
Downloads Expression Media Encoder is an advanced video encoding tool especially suited for generating content that takes full advantage of the rich graphic and interactive capability of Silverlight playback scenarios.You can also generate Windows Media...
[January 24, 2008, 10:52]
Flip4Mac WMV
Downloads In addition, a watermark will be placed on any files that you import until you upgrade to Player ProVersion 2.2.1.11 improved WMV playback in Safari, Safari and Camino compatibility, and output results when using DV .mov source in Studio and...
[September 9, 2008, 11:28]
A New Twist - NBC Online Olympic Coverage For Vista Only
Blog Comment This is presumably available on Windows versions which support Silverlight. 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.
[July 4, 2008, 12:55]
Microsoft Readies Silverlight Release Candidate
News Silverlight is a download for displaying media and interactive content in web pages. The 1.0 version of Silverlight is optimised "mainly for media scenarios", said Scott Guthrie, general manager in Microsoft's Server and Tools division in charge of...
[July 27, 2007, 16:42]
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. It uses Windows Media Technologies of course - how could you not know that?
[September 11, 2007, 18:42]
Microsoft Sets Out Its Online Services Strategy
News The company will release a beta and website dedicated to Silverlight, its cross-platform multi-browser plug-in for writing media-rich interactive web applications. Currently, Silverlight can run applications written in Microsoft's XAML and JavaScript.
[April 30, 2007, 10:12]
Microsoft Invests In Online TV Firm Move Networks
News As part of Monday's deal, Move Networks said it will support Windows Server-based encoding, Microsoft video-compression technology (codecs), and Silverlight's digital rights management (DRM). In March, Microsoft said it would begin supporting Move...
[August 26, 2008, 8:14]
Ballmer: Microsoft 'hell-bent' On Success In Ads
News Silverlight is a download for displaying media and interactive content in web pages. Furthering its strategy to court web developers and designers, Microsoft said that, by the end of the week, it will release Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate.
[July 27, 2007, 8:03]
Mono Update Promises To Pull In .NET 2.0
News Mono is the toolset that was used to create Moonlight, a subset of the project and an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich media browser plug-in. The purpose of the Novell-sponsored Mono project is to help developers write...
[October 7, 2008, 13:30]
Silverlight Open-source Implementation Released
News Moonlight is the project's upcoming implementation of Silverlight, a plug-in first introduced in September 2007, which supports rich internet media, such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback.
[May 16, 2008, 13:14]
Faster, Fully Featured FireFox 3
Talkback Silverlight (Microsoft's attempt at a Web platform) does install but does not run video as a plug-in to FireFox 3. Windows Media Player plug-in works well under FireFox3. I managed to get one of the 7 million downloads on the first day, mostly just...
[June 21, 2008, 1:26]
