Digital Podcast» Digital Podcast | Adobe http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses. We help publishers build new media businesses that use best practices to market content, build audience and monetize the results. Give us a call at 562-824-5193. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © digitalpodcast@gmail.com () digitalpodcast@gmail.com() 1440 Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses. We help publishers build new media businesses that use best practices to market content, build audience and monetize the results. Give us a call at 562-824-5193. digitalpodcast@gmail.com No no http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast144.jpg Digital Podcast http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews 144 144 MS Releases Silverlight Plugin Competitor to Flash Player http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/09/05/ms-releases-silverlight-plugin-competitor-to-flash-player/ http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/09/05/ms-releases-silverlight-plugin-competitor-to-flash-player/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:27:40 +0000 Alex Nesbitt http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/09/05/ms-releases-silverlight-plugin-competitor-to-flash-player/ The most important media news this week may be the release by Microsoft of the “Web (RTW) Silverlightâ„¢ 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web.”

This is direct and real competition with Adobe’s Flash player used by most leading web video services.

“Entertainment Tonight,” HSN and World Wrestling Entertainment as well as several Microsoft Web initiatives including the “Halo® 3” preview, Tafiti.com and The Podium ’08 are using the Silverlight.

In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com.

This steps up competition in video space much more than anything Apple had to say today. It may make things more complicated but it will also likely spur lots more innovation in web video.

Here’s a video about what Microsoft is doing with Silverlight:

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