Selasa, 17 April 2007

Microsoft Silverlight Challenges Macromedia Flash

Silverlight is going to be Microsoft’s new video streaming technology, its going to be a browser plugin supported for both windows and mac.

Silverlight has been under development in more then two years now, and can show web applications in both windows and mac with IE browser, firefox and safari.

Even though Windows media video (wmv) is very popular video format macromedia flash still is dominating on web streaming in both youtube.com and myspace.com.

Among possible partners for this new Silverlight project is mentioned Major League Baseball, and some web based video companies such as Netflix and Akamai Technologies.
Source: smh.com.au