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Mary-Jo FoleyA new Microsoft software plus service: Silverlight Streaming
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Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsoft’s latest example of software plus service (S+S) — a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming — during his opening keynote at Microsoft’s Mix ‘07 conference on April 30.
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Mary-Jo Foley
Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 20 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning "At The Evil Empire" column for ZDNet, and more recently the Microsoft Watch blog for Ziff Davis.
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Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the wraps off Microsoft's latest example of software plus service (S+S) — a new video streaming offering called Silverlight Streaming — during his opening keynote at Microsoft's Mix '07 conference on April 30.
Silverlight Streaming is in alpha. It is a free hosting service for developers creating rich-media content using Microsoft Expression Studio tools and third-party offerings.
To start, Microsoft is offering developers 4 GB of free storage. The company is making available a Silverlight Streaming software development kit (SDK) for download, as well. Users will be able to upload any number of ten-minute video segments, officials said, and Microsoft will provide them with a URL for their content stored on Microsoft's servers.
Silverlight Streaming "will let you post your media to the Microsoft storage service in the cloud," Ozzie told attendees of the Las Vegas conference.
On the software side, Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, that competes with Adobe's Flash technology.
During his keynote, Ozzie also announced:
* The availability of Silverlight 1.0 Beta 1 for download
* The availability of Silverlight 1.1, which adds support for ASP.Net Ajax, Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) support and support for JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, Python and Ruby, which it will make available via a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer
* Final availability of the full Expression Studio suite of tools for designer
* New commercial terms of use for Windows Live
Stay tuned for more Mix '07 coverage through Wednesday….
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Mary Jo has covered the tech industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
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Freelance journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley has nothing to disclose. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. I have no business ventures that are sponsored by/funded by Microsoft or any of its partners or competitors. I have not accepted any consulting funds from Microsoft, any of its partners or its competitors for any studies/projects.
Biography
Mary-Jo Foley
Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 20 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning "At The Evil Empire" column for ZDNet, and more recently the Microsoft Watch blog for Ziff Davis.
Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.
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