May, 2010

A quick note to let you know about that if you’re in Europe anytime between now and June 6, you can enjoy the 2010 French Open tennis championships live and on-demand on the Web via Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming. In France, check out the France...

From time to time we get asked about Silverlight support for various codecs. The codecs change (today we’re getting some questions regarding WebM/VP8) but our answer is consistent regardless of the individual codec: We are strongly committed...

The final release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services is now available! Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services include numerous features to help developers work with Silverlight 4 applications...

February 12-28 th , Vancouver, Canada : The recent Winter Olympics online video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming set the bar for the industry. The proof is in the unbelievable statistics made available from CTV, NRK, NBC and France...

On May 5 th , the Russian ICT Ministry launched a Microsoft Silverlight-powered “Chronicle of Victory” portal at http://pobeda-info.ru , developed to commemorate the 65 th anniversary of World War II Victory Day on May 9 th , 2010 and created with the...

Some big news today for customers who are interested in easy to use, robust content protection for HTTP streaming scenarios using IIS Media Services… Today we’re announcing that IIS Media Services will support a version of PlayReady DRM...

If you’ve been to the doctor recently and dealt with filling out forms, you likely know the frustration and hassle of mounds of paperwork. As the backend processor of that paperwork, MDI knows that pain all too well. In search of a better way to...