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Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight Media Framework and IIS Media Services transformed the 2010 Professional Developer Conference into a global virtual event that attracted an unprecedented 100,000 in-person and online attendees to the two day conference. A new Microsoft white paper titled "The Global...

Dayforce built its workforce management solution on Microsoft Silverlight, presenting managers with performance dashboards, approval workflows, employee time cards, and task checklists. By delving deeper into the applications, manager’s can view their company’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to construct...

In 2000, Brazil based New Age Software launched its ERP application and received disappointing feedback from customers about how the front-end was time consuming to install and the interface was difficult to learn and operate. As a result, New Age Software set out to redesign its ERP application searching...

In the 1970’s, Home Shopping Network (HSN) pioneered live-TV retail by providing viewers with an easier way to purchase products featured on HSN’s TV broadcast through their home telephone. With the introduction of HSN.com in the late 1990’s, customers could order online, quickly increasing HSN’s overall...

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 Televisions. The combination of unprecedented viewing...

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 support of Microsoft Russia. The portal delivers...

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 assist their customers and employees in simplifying...

This NFL season, NBC thrilled football fans by broadcasting Sunday Night Football on 2 screens – television and online. And now, as a result of this great work, Sunday Night Football Extra and NBC Sports have been nominated for a 2010 Sports Emmy® Nomination! NBC Sports teamed with Microsoft Silverlight...

The live streaming of the Olympic Winter Games presented challenges of tremendous scale and complexity, ultimately delivering more than 45 million live streams over 710 million page views! Online Olympics viewers enjoyed a vastly improved quality of experience—including the first Olympics to be streamed...

McDonald’s has used Silverlight and a host of other exciting Microsoft technologies to build a Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics-themed campaign for McNuggets called “ Dip it. Dunk it. Let the games begin ”. The site, which runs only during the Winter Olympic games, features a mini game where you can give...

We’ve talked about the great new features of the Vancouver Olympics Silverlight based video and photo viewers, talked about the all of the content available in full HD quality, and talked about how Silverlight is being used in innovative ways to help content owners monetize their content at higher levels...

Exciting news for those of you living in Europe. Eurosport, one Europe’s premier sports broadcasting networks, is delivering the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games to thousands of web viewers across 39 countries. Eurosport subscribers can enjoy a stunning high definition experience on the web and catch all...

Schematic used the engaging rich internet application of Silverlight 3 and the responsiveness of Windows Azure cloud platform to build a cutting edge Twitter application, the recently released Beta version of Twittzure. TwittZure enables users to access key Twitter features by providing an engaging...

Each year, in the lead up to Thanksgiving, Microsoft holds its annual Giving Campaign where as a company we focus on giving back. This can be by either giving time to our local communities, schools and other organizations, or through donations to registered charitable organizations. As part of this campaign...

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 not only for the weigh-ins, but also for the...

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 single-click export of any slideshow into a self...

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 whole design and development process was fascinating...

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 of the France 24 French blog post: “Imagine that...

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 Blend enabled Ping to beat its deadlines...

September 29, 2009: Judges from the Website awards program and Web institution, the Favourite Website Awards (FWA) , chalked up another milestone for Silverlight, selecting the Xbox Beatles RockBand website to receive the coveted ‘Site of the Day’ award . Founded in 2000, the Favourite...

Just a reminder that Thursday night is the kickoff of the NFL Sunday Night Football experience powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming on NBCSports.com and NFL.com. With a 720p HD broadcast feed, four additional feeds with switching, picture-in-picture, slo-mo, and pause functionality that put you...

Today Microsoft and Tesco , one of the world’s largest retailers, announced a collaboration to use Silverlight to deliver the next generation of Home Video entertainment to consumers. Starting this Fall, customers who buy certain home video titles from Tesco stores in the UK will be able to download...

It’s time! The Ultimate Fighting Championship #102 on August 29 th will use Silverlight to bring the fights to online viewers at http://www.ufc.com . While this in itself is great news, there will be an exciting addition to the coverage – the pre-fight weigh ins will be covered LIVE on Friday...

Today is a wildly exciting day for Silverlight and all football fans! NBC announced that this fall, Silverlight together with IIS Smooth Streaming, will power full HD (720p) experiences for live delivery of all the NFL Sunday Night Football games this season. Wait until you see the unbelievable high...

Explore the natural laws of physics as explained by the brilliant and dynamic Dr. Richard Feynman in his classic "Messenger Series" of lectures from 1964. Project Tuva is the Silverlight-based, interactive video experience, enhancing the lectures with fully searchable transcripts with captions...