Our World Live (OWL), a music marketing and broadcasting company, is partnering with Billboard.com to bring music fans a new internet concert series . Billboardlive.com utilizes OWL's state-of-the-art technology, powered by Microsoft Silverlight to provide...

The Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL) plug-in is an open source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment that enables Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Microsoft has collaborated...

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add Silverlight content, in this case from Expression Blend, to your Web sites. In this example, we’ll be...

Playing video in Silverlight is great, but what about viewers who have a hearing impairment? Not important? The World Health Organization (WHO) would beg to differ. According to their 2005 estimates, “278 million people worldwide have moderate to profound...

If your schedule is in anyway similar to mine you’ll probably be very familiar with this scenario. A new version of a tool that you use day in and day out is announced, packed with exciting new features and enhancements that you know will immediately...

Back in August we told you about how UFC.com used IIS Smooth Streaming for the UFC 102 pre-fight weigh-ins. Building on the success of that, we’re excited to announce that this Saturday, October 24 th , UFC 104 will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming...

Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight converter that’s aimed at both presenters and Silverlight designers and developers. This first-of-its-kind tool works as an add-in to PowerPoint and offers...

Microsoft has recently had the pleasure of working with Big Spaceship to deliver the new Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show . It’s always exciting working with agencies like Big Spaceship that like to push the creative envelope. For us the...

This week Bell Canada announced the availability of “TMN Online,” a service available through the Bell TV Online portal that offers access to online content for subscribers of The Movie Network channel. Silverlight, along with ExtendMedia’s OpenCASE and...

Listen to media experts Jaime Miles of Level 3 Communications and Chris Knowlton of Microsoft talk about delivering True HD Video (1080p) over the Web on Thursday, October 15 th . Click here to register and learn why Smooth Streaming is the future of...

We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There are 22 categories in all and run the gamut from content to technologies. You can enter your votes here . We’ve been nominated in the following categories...

Expression Web makes it faster and easier to create standards-based Web sites with rich Silverlight content. With Expression Web 3, you can easily add and encode Silverlight video for your websites. And you can also add Silverlight content from Expression...

France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also uses Smooth Streaming to deliver an innovative take on live news. You can check out the player and their blog post (in French.) Here’s the quick summary...

Did you know that the single best way to get video encoded for Silverlight, or indeed your Zune for that matter, is free? Yes that’s right, free. There is a version of Expression Encoder available for download from the Expression Website which has all...

If you’ve enjoyed live web broadcast events like Wimbledon and Sunday Night Football on NBCSports, the UEFA Super Cup on Canal+, and Roland Garros and the Tour de France on France Télévisions, then you’ve witnessed first-hand the power of our Smooth Streaming...

PING, one of the best-known brands in golf equipment, was running out of time to deliver a prototype of its next generation custom club fitting, specifying and ordering system at the Professional Golfers’ Merchandise Show in 2008. Find out how Expression...

Just when we thought spending summer days in the sand were behind us (at least here in Redmond), the AVP recently announced that they will use Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming to bring beach volleyball fans around the world live, SD and HD streaming...

On October 1 st ,MSN released the beta of My Health Info , a new online service that helps people manage their health information on the Web. My Health Info is a unique service that offers people a variety of tools and widgets to upload, organize and...