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Deliver and Scale Rich Media

Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a Silverlight companion service that makes it easier to deliver and scale rich media. The service offers a free (*) and convenient solution for hosting and streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences and rich interactive applications that run on Windows™ and Mac.

Combined with the ability to create content with Microsoft® Expression Studio and other 3rd party tools, Web designers and content publishers wishing to integrate Silverlight applications into their online properties can enjoy complete control of the end user experience.

 

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Silverlight Streaming ads pilot program has launched

The Silverlight Streaming ads pilot program has launched and is live in production! A couple of weeks ago, we successfully launched the SLS ads trial (see previous references below). This means that for the very first time, we have opened up a Windows Live service to breadth developers to enable them to use the Microsoft adCenter Publisher platform. There is real US Dollar revenue associated to t....

Silverlight Streaming upgraded to work with Silverlight 2 Beta 2

The Silverlight Streaming service has been successfully upgraded to work with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. As mentioned in my previous post about this maintenance release, all Silverlight 2 Beta 1 applications hosted in SLS should be upgraded to use the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 runtime as soon as possible if it is not already done. They are no longer supported from SLS, and they will no longer work anyway as....

Silverlight Streaming will soon be upgraded to Silverlight 2 Beta 2

As you may have already noticed, since the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 was released a week or so ago, and if you have upgraded the Silverlight runtime on your machine, not all applications hosted in Silverlight Streaming work correctly. This is due to several breaking changes in the Silverlight runtime between Beta 1 and Beta 2, which we intend to become compliant with later this week from the Silverligh....

Silverlight Streaming publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder 2 is available for download

I'm pleased to announced that the Beta refresh release of the Silverlight Streaming publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder 2 is available for download right here. This plug-in makes it very easy to manage your encoded Silverlight video experiences and publish them online using the Silverlight Streaming service, from within the Expression Encoder 2 application. As well as adding support for E....

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Silverlight Streaming

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is out, read ScottGu's blog about this release on http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-beta2-released.aspx. Due to the imminent launch of the Silverlight Streaming ads trial program, the Silverlight Streaming service has not yet been updated to be fully functional with the Silverlight 2 Beta 2. As a direct consequence, Silverlight Streaming doesn’t....

(*) While the service is in beta, storage is free up to 10 GB and streaming is free up to 5 TB of aggregated bandwidth per user account per month. Videos should not exceed 10 minutes and have a maximum bit rate of 1.4 Mbps. As we move out of beta, unlimited streaming will also be available for free with advertising, or with payment of a nominal fee for use of the service without advertising.