By Ben Homer, April 8th, 2009
After MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman’s gushing review of Flash to CNET earlier this week, the Silverlight team fired back.
Arguing that the penetration argument (Flash is installed on 99% of internet connected computers versus Silverlight’s 50%) most use when citing the advantages of Flash over Silverlight is BS, Microsoft’s Steve Sklepowich pointed to the adoption [...]
By Ben Homer, April 7th, 2009
One has to imagine that Microsoft, MLB Advanced Media’s former streaming partner since day 1 of MLB.TV has to be pretty pissed to watch Adobe steal their thunder and take over their largest client from Silverlight. Flash is clearly winning the battle with Silverlight. MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman’s take on why Flash won out for [...]
By Ben Homer, November 25th, 2008
Microsoft has acquired exclusive rights to season two of popular web series The Guild according to the Hollywood Reporter. The twelve episode series will debut exclusively on Xbox LIVE, MSN and Zune. After a four week period episodes will move to an embedded MSN video player on watchtheguild.com. Microsoft has lined up Sprint as a [...]
By Ben Homer, October 13th, 2008
Microsoft announced today that the final release of Silverlight 2 will be made available Tuesday Oct 14. The company gloats about 25% penetration, but take a look at Microsoft’s promoted partners and try to find one that Microsoft didn’t pay to try it out. It’s worth asking the question – is this too little too [...]
By Ben Homer, September 23rd, 2008
The Associated Press has moved their Online Video Network back-end from MSN to thePlatform reports PaidContent, quoting Jane Seagrave, SVP for AP’s global product development unit:
When we got to discussing renewal, we jointly and very amicably agreed that it no longer made sense to have Microsoft handle both ad sales and technology. We’ve been pleased [...]
