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New kid in town , Microsoft Silverlight

“Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.” – Microsoft
Now as far as i heard the SL can stream Video (probably wmv) using only IIS ( internet information server ) then oh uh its the new Gen indeed , would that effect Flash video files (FLV) ? or Adobe got its own surprise , you know Adobe is full of it now days :)

http://silverlight.net/

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5 Responses to “New kid in town , Microsoft Silverlight”

  1. On June 13, 2007 at 12:37 am hashim responded with... #

    interesting that the phone being used in the commercial looks a lot like an iPhone. makes me wonder :)

    It looks good, but will it perform good?!

    Have to wait and see.

  2. On June 13, 2007 at 1:15 am Mohammed Zainal responded with... #

    Yeah saw that too , uff bugger now Munther will bla bla bla bla yady yady yady over it .
    time will tell indeed …

  3. On June 14, 2007 at 6:12 pm Tito responded with... #

    Interesting video
    I guess in few years people will have one of those

    By the way I saw something about microsoft surface
    what is the relation between this and microsoft silverlight?

    Thank you
    Keep those interesting posts coming
    I haven’t been here for a while

  4. On June 15, 2007 at 9:22 am Tito responded with... #

    Thank you very much brother for providing the links =)

  5. On June 15, 2007 at 2:56 am Mohammed Zainal responded with... #

    cheers tito m good to have ya on my blog matey …
    im not sure whats the connection between the 2 products , needs further reading ….
    you can see the demo here @ Delay’s Blog
    http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/06/01/silverlight-surface-demonstration-silverlight-implementation-of-surface-s-photo-table-ui.aspx

    you will need msft silverlight alpha plugin http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/silverlight/bb419317.aspx

    what is really amazing that it can output video at DVD quality …
    again this need silverlight plugin

    http://silverlight.net/fox/ << experience the silverlight vid in action .

    notice in the status bar that its streaming an actual WMV files …

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