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We're back! After a little Holiday Hiatus Laura and Paul have returned to bring you the hottest stories that Microsofties and pinging each other about. Some of this weeks items include: Avatar Kinect! Bing helps you get a new carBye Bye BobThe h.264 scoop

They got their old set back and apparently their old groove back as well. Join Laura & Paul as they discuss these hot stories: VOTE FOR THE NINEYS!!!The Xbox PACTSwim with Phelps on your KinectA Microsoft cookbook of the FutureMore news about H.264 Don't forget to follow us on Twitter! @lfoy…

Looking to learn more about encoding videos for the internet and several other potential deployments using Expression Encoder 3? Looking for a screen capture utility? Do you have a HD WMV file, but it does not play properly when streamed over the internet? Learn the answers to these…

The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure.http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268And the previous installments are…

It’s alive! The IIS team has just released the first public beta of the Smooth Streaming module for IIS7. This means anyone with Windows Server 2008 can start experimenting with this next generation media delivery technology for Silverlight. We’re aiming for a final release in Q2 this year, which…

So, Silverlight 3 was released today, and the Expression Studio is available in a public release candidate, including the awesome Expression Encoder 2.I'll have a bunch more to say about it, of course, but first off let me just provide links to the important stuff relating to the media side of…

So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple of weeks. So I'm skipping the Akamai shindig…

So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com. There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related news that came out today. I’ll be posting a lot…

So, our big IBC press announcement went out this morning. Lots of blog-worthy stuff in there, but as a compression nerd, it's the codec stuff I'm going to talk about first. The big news is that, yes, we're going to add support for MPEG-4 to Silverlight, in the version coming after the…

James Clarke has a blog post up describing some of the new features in the forthcoming Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1.It's got some great new stuff, and we're demoing it here at Streaming Media West this week.Read the whole post - there's lots of good stuff in there. A couple of my favories…