Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
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.
Silverlight Streaming Blog
Summary:
Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta is being discontinued and will eventually be taken down
A new Windows® Azure(TM)-based hosting and delivery service will be launched by the end of 2009, though this is not a direct replacement for Silverlight Streaming and will have costs associated with its use
You can access, retrieve and if desired remove your content that is....
As some of you have noticed, and taken the time to report either by email or in the forum, the Silverlight Streaming service experienced an unplanned outage yesterday afternoon. As of this morning everything should be up and running again.
A bit more information about this issue:
Direct access to videos and video upload functionality was impacted, videos were still accessible via iframe invocati....
The Silverlight Streaming service is now back online, and you should be able to render your videos and Silverlight applications from the service as before the outage.However in order to restore availability we had to take some action that will possibly negatively impact the video playback rendering performance in some geographical regions, in particular Western Europe. The other regions should not....
As you may have noticed, the service is acting up again this morning. As a user so gently put it "It looks like the 'root cause' of the outage managed to grow new roots." I love this touch of humor in this very frustrating situation. We're working on it. Stay tuned.
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Root cause has been identified and the fix applied. Allow me to thank everybody who took the time to report the problem, again, and renew my apologies on behalf of the team for the inconvenience it caused all of you.
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