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Hello Silverlight!!!

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Having been involved in a few of the notably-mediocre names such as "Windows Presentation Foundation" and "Windows Communication Foundation" and the like, I am very excited that we have landed on a good name for our web client platform...  Soma introduced Silverlight on his blog earlier tonight and I hear we are in a demo frenzy down at NAB!    There is no doubt that Silverlight will become a core part of the .NET platform (I even added a category for it ;-)). 

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This past week I have been getting ready for my Mix talk (which is about.. you guessed it, Silverlight)... I have been spending sometime with some of the cool stuff we announced at NAB..
Expression Media Encoder is a very slick addition to the Expression Suite and while I haven't really explored all its features, I have been able to create some very professional looking experiences very quickly.
IIS7 Media Pack for Windows Server  - This is cool stuff and changes the way you (as a service provider) think about streaming media... When I see the red bar at the bottom of a YouTube work its way all the way to then end right before I navigate away after only watch the first 1 min I think of all the wasted network bandwidth (and money) must be spent on unwatched video!
Oh, and I have of course been playing around with some new ASP.NET stuff as well... It all fits together nicely!

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  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    Silverlight looks like an interesting technology, and a cool name; let's hope it doesn't go the same way as "Origami"! > When I see the red bar at the bottom of a YouTube work its way all the way to then end right before I navigate away after only watch the first 1 min I think of all the wasted network bandwidth (and money) must be spent on unwatched video! I have the opposite opinion on this! I usually wait until the video has completely loaded before watching it... there's absolutely nothing worse than watching video online that stutters and can't keep up. Even worse is when you watch part of the video and then the connection dies.

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    Totally agree with the commenter above on streaming video. If given the option I'll go with whatever format lets me know the entire movie is downloaded for viewing, as relying on the streaming version keeping up often results an extremely rubbish experience. I am especially wary of any WMV streams, as they seem more likely to degenerate into an audio stream with accompanying slideshow.

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2007
    I was going to post how excited I am to see a cool product name like Silverlight follow a somewhat confusing

  • Anonymous
    April 17, 2007
    Microsoft ha cambiado el nombre a WPF/E a partir de ahora disponemos del nuevo Microsoft SilverLight

  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2007
    I'm wondering if we can expect VoIP client integrated within WPF/e (ok, Silverlight)? Make real-time communication  integral part of client side development,  and you'll bring to masses easy way to create compelling applications, and make browser a universal communication device... Microsoft has all that is required to bring this on.

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2007
    MIX07 is coming up in a week and a half and I wanted to provide an overview of the IE activities at the