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...

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...

So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09 . They were invited to do a code-off with three Adobe representatives to build a cool app...

The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure. http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268 And the previous installments are here...

So, Silverlight 3 was released today, and the Expression Studio is available in a public release candidate, including the awesome Expression Encoder 2. I'll have a bunch more to say about it, of course, but first off let me just provide links to the important stuff relating to the media side of things...

While most of the world is on a collective vacation watching the World Cup, media teams at Microsoft have been busy at work. And watching the World Cup. Released this month: Expression Studio 4 , which of course includes Expression Encoder 4 . IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Smooth Streaming Format SDK 1...