Since we announced our new IIS Smooth Streaming extension last October with Akamai , we've been spending a lot of time engaging with very-interested customers and partners. In the course of these discussions, we hear a lot of frequently asked questions about Smooth Streaming, usually along these...

I will try to keep this FAQ up to date, so you may want to bookmark it and check it for updates every now and then. Q: What is Smooth Streaming? A: Smooth Streaming is Microsoft’s implementation of HTTP-based adaptive streaming. Q: What is adaptive streaming? A: It is a hybrid content delivery...

I am pleased to announce the availability of Smooth Streaming beta! The hot new media extension for IIS7 can now be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming, in both x86 and x64 flavors. The Smooth Streaming beta is also available for install through the uniform Microsoft Web Platform...

So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com . There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related news that came out today. I’ll be posting a lot this...

Though blogging in Las Vegas might sound like a party foul, this has been an amazing week for Silverlight media - so much that I feel a sudden urge to report on it right now, right here. Silverlight 3 Beta A mere 5 months after releasing Silverlight 2 RTW, we have now made Silverlight 3 Beta available...

If you were unable to attend MIX 2009, you’ll be pleased to know that the videos of sessions are already appearing online: https://content.visitmix.com/2009/sessions/. Here are the links to the videos of sessions I had previously mentioned: What’s New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 Speaker: Joe...

Live Smooth Streaming Lots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript ), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth Streaming. The key advantages of Smooth Streaming...

I know that many of you have been reading my blog for information about IIS Smooth Streaming. I’ve posted a series of posts on that topic, but sometimes blog posts can be difficult to aggregate. So if you’re looking for a single, one-stop-shop for information about Smooth Streaming, you can...

I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about, yes, we’ll be doing the Compressionist Party again...

During the last months I have been working in a project highly related to multimedia and client development technologies such as Silverlight. And in the last few weeks, I started to look to some of the new IIS Media services such as Smooth Streaming and Live Smooth Streaming in order to gather as much...