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Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview, dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming. Deep Zoom is also working. The mono team has tons of info, so here’s…

Recorded session from REMIX. Using WebGallery, WebDeploy and IIS ExtensionsMicrosoft Web Platform Installer streamlines the installation and provisioning of Web Applications on a developer machine or web server. Web PI with the power and extensibility Internet Information Services is a winning…

Just got some news: tomorrow's Michael Jackson memorial is going to be broadcast live in 720p Smooth Streaming by Sympatico / MSN inMusic. The feed is originating from Canada, but is not georestricted! I think this is the first globally available Live HD Smooth Streaming event.The event kicks off at…

Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising at this point.We've got some more info up about it at…

So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09. They were invited to do a code-off with three Adobe representatives to build a cool app to…

I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about, yes, we’ll be doing the Compressionist Party…

Microsoft announced at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show that it’s working with Intel and Broadcom to port the Silverlight platform to set-top boxes, connected TVs, Blu-ray players and other consumer devices. Using system-on-a-chip (SOC) technology, consumer electronics…

One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog. This is going to be the biggest English language Live Smooth…

It’s MIX09 this week, so brace yourselves for a deluge of media-related blogging from me. We’ve been in alpha/beta for a few months now, and today Akamai announced the official launch of their “AdaptiveEdge” service based on Smooth Streaming. The full press release is here. And of course you can…

Microsoft has signed on to contribute to the open-source project Joomla!, a content management system for publishing to the web and intranet sites. According to a post on the Joomla! blog, Microsoft has now signed the JCA (Joomla! Contributor Agreement) and has contributed code that will be…