Silverlight Streaming Beta Outage

My apologies to those unable to access my screencasts on building a Silverlight 2 data form. The Silverlight Streaming service has been flakey for the last few days and, as I write this, it is non-existent.

Given that the service is free and still in beta, we can't complain (too much) about outages. It would be nice, however to have more frequent status reports. I like the way Messenger shows its current status.

For the time being, all we know is what Remy Pairault (Program Manager for Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live)  has posted here: http://dev.live.com/blogs/sls/archive/2009/01/26/452.aspx .

Of course after the beta is over, the uptime of Silverlight Streaming and other Live services will become far more significant. Businesses will need a large degree of confidence in Microsoft's infrastructure before betting their commercial ventures on cloud computing with Azure.