Microsoft to Discontinue Silverlight Streaming Service
Microsoft to Discontinue Silverlight Streaming Service
Posted 10/19/2009 at 12:20pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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Microsoft has announced that it is ending it’s Silverlight Streaming beta. Silverlight Streaming is a free-hosting service for Silverlight applications and videos that is part of Windows Live. Microsoft will replace the service with a new, fee-based service using Windows Azure, which is expected to appear by the end of 2009
Microsoft says that Silverlight Streaming beta sign-ups have been halted, and the service “will eventually be taken down,” along with all existing content. Microsoft assures users there content is safe and they’ll be given plenty of warning before it goes away. Instructions for retrieving Silverlight Streaming content for PC and Mac users are available at the Live Services Blog.
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jcollins
October 19, 2009 at 2:58pm
So is Silverlight dead then, or just the streaming aspect? Not really sure what this means.
shutout5591
October 20, 2009 at 9:32am
The Silverlight Streaming Service was targeted at companies to allow them to take video, like news clips or movie previews, and host them on M$'s servers. The company would have to make the silverlight applicationba nd simply point it towards the file on the servers and it would stream, thus taking away the "hassle" of space and bandwidth from the company. I belive it was used by Blockbuster and CNN.
Silverlight is still alive, and as a developer, I personally think it is far superior to Flash.
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