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Microsoft invests in Net video company Move Networks
Microsoft has invested in Internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden the reach of its video streaming technology. The investment comes roughly five months after the two companies struck a strategic partnership. In March, Microsoft said it would begin supporting Move Network’s video streaming technology within its own cross-browser [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight’s Olympics stats
Thursday, August 14, 2008
If you don’t know by now, Microsoft has been crazy for this year’s Olympics. One thing they’re doing with NBC, is powering over 2000 hours worth of videos. So how is it doing in terms of performance? Here are some few stats of what www.nbcolympics.com has done for Silverlight. Silverlight has been downloaded 8 million times [...]
Continue reading...Deep Zoom Barack Obama
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
When Microsoft announced Silverlight 2, they showcased a really neat feature known as Deep Zoom. Deep Zoom allows for smooth in-place zooming and panning for high resolution image. Using this feature, Deep Zoom Obama has created “an interactive mosaic” of Barack Obama using over 12,000 images of Obama supporters uploaded on www.BarackObama.com. The mosaic allows [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 released
Monday, June 9, 2008
As promised, Microsoft has released the newest beta release of it Flash competitor, Silverlight. Head over to the official site to update or download your version.
Continue reading...Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to ship this week
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
In what will be Bill Gates’s last keynote as Chairman of Microsoft, TechEd 2008 brought a few new features to Silverlight, Microsoft’s Flash competitor. Microsoft announced Beta 2 of Silverlight 2 will be released later this week with a Go Live license for production, which enables developers to begin building and deploying Silverlight 2.0 applications. Source
Continue reading...Live Search to be default on HP PCs
Monday, June 2, 2008
Microsoft announced today a partnership to bring a Silverlight powered Live Search toolbar, similar to the recently released MSN toolbar, to all Hewlet Packard computers starting 2009. As part of the deal, Live Search will become the default search engine, a spot previously held by Yahoo. The toolbar will also allow users to reach certain [...]
Continue reading...MSN Toolbar released
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Lifting its Beta tag, Microsoft has recently released its Silverlight powered MSN Toolbar. The new MSN Toolbar lets you: See highlights of popular MSN channels quickly Stay up to date without leaving the Web page you’re on Get late-breaking news headlines at your fingertips Use handy search tools to find exactly what you need Source
Continue reading...DNCC names Microsoft official HD Web Content provider
Monday, April 28, 2008
The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) announced today that it will make Microsoft its Official Software and HD Web Content Provider for the 2008 Democratic National Convention which is held in Denver during August 25-28. With the help of Microsoft’s software, the DNCC will support a tracking system to to gather and manage information about [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft’s Silverlight to get new partners
Monday, April 14, 2008
At the NAB Show 2008, Microsoft announced new partners of it Silverlight platform. Media companies including Madison Square Garden (MSG) Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, MNet and Yahoo! JAPAN, will begin delivering content and media to users via Microsoft’s Silverlight. The deals continue to show Microsoft wants to be a big player [...]
Continue reading...Silverlight 2.0 to be released Summer 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Microsoft blogger, Ashish Thapliyal, answered many questions today in a blog post about the next version of Silverlight. According to Thapliyal, Silverlight will continue to support the VC-1, WMV, MP3 and WMA formats while support for other formats is not currently being worked on. The reason? Microsoft does not want to increase the size of [...]
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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