In August 2007, Microsoft heralded the release of their Silverlight software by boasting that MLB.com (Major League Baseball) would be using Silverlight to stream their videos. As MLB.com is one of the most successful and popular subscription based video sites on the web with 2.5 million subscribers and lots of traffic (an Alexa rank in [...]
About a month ago I did a post…or more accurately a review…of Microsoft Silverlight (Microsoft’s foray into the world of web video). The review even drew a couple comments from the Silverlight team at Microsoft. At the time, my big question with Silverlight was…why would someone want to use it when Flash is the Internet [...]
Silverlight is Microsoft’s latest foray into the world of web media. While there are many individual components to Silverlight, essentially, it functions much like a wanna-be competitor to Flash (the Internet standard for rich, interactive media). What Microsoft is trying to do with Silverlight, is make the creation of this media much easier (anyone who [...]
