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2.29.2008

Silverlight Streaming Service is brilliant!



I'm using an iframe above to display the Silverlight. I got the code from Tim Sneath's Blog

This is using the new beta service Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. It offers a free streaming and application hosting solution for delivering high-quality, cross-platform, cross-browser, media-enabled rich interactive applications (RIAs). With the ability to author content in Microsoft Expression Encoder and other third-party editing environments, Web designers maintain complete control of the user experience.

I think this is a brilliant idea. Microsoft has money, bandwidth, and servers. They can "afford" to host Silverlight apps for free because by doing so developers will create new, more engaging experiences using Silverlight. These Silverlight apps will get cooler as more people use them. The cool apps will be posted on blogs all over using the techniques highlighted below. Users hit the blog, see an "Install Silverlight" banner, they click it and boom, Silverlight market penetration. This service keeps the hosting costs down for devs while letting them explore Silverlight and help distribute the plugin to new users.

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