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Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone

At PDC last week, Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager Brian Goldfarb demonstrated H.264 video streaming wirelessly using Microsoft’s Silverlight video streaming to an Apple iPhone. It seems odd but Microsoft is working with Apple to bring Silverlight on iPhone. This could be a big win for Microsoft and Silverlight developers because having the ability to get content to mobile phone users is extremely important. Although Silverlight has uses far beyond video such as developing a desktop client, developing a game or integrating with Facebook etc but it does streaming video extremely well. Do check out the launch of Silverlight 4 which was demoed by Scott Guthrie at PDC.

“The promise of Silverlight is that it’s a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works the same on Macs as it does on Windows. The iPhone is a unique scenario. We talked to our customers and they said, ‘Look, we just need to get our content there, and it’s mainly in the media space like broadcasting, and we want to put it on the iPhone.’ They have a great solution for that; if you’re surfing the Web, and hit YouTube and hit ‘Play,’ it’ll play your video because they’ve created an environment where they can safely play media, and they’re comfortable with that, So we’ve worked with Apple to create a server-side based solution with IIS Media Services, and what we’re doing is taking content that’s encoded for smooth streaming and enabling the content owner to say, ‘I want to enable the iPhone.’ The server will dynamically make the content work – same content, same point of origin – on the iPhone. We do this with the HTML 5 tag, in many ways.” Brian Goldfarb – Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager


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    2 Feb 10 at 10:54 pm

  2. [...] Pro Tweets SL on iphone http://microsoftfeed.com/2009/microsoft-worked-with-apple-for-silverlight-on-iphone/ /via @poedja_p alpascual – Wed 03 Feb 5:52 0 votes All Things [...]

    alpascual at 02/03/10 05:52:02 | Exectweets

    2 Feb 10 at 11:18 pm

  3. RT @alpascual: Silverlight on iphone http://microsoftfeed.com/2009/microsoft-worked-with-apple-for-silverlight-on-iphone

    David Wright

    3 Feb 10 at 5:55 am

  4. @SORnD is it now that we going to have a Superoffice version on iPhone/iPad? http://bit.ly/9KyiGI the other way is http://monotouch.net/

    balexandre

    3 Feb 10 at 10:51 am

  5. Sweet if trueRT @alpascual: SL on iphone http://bit.ly/9aeLBk /via @poedja_p

    Mads Laumann

    3 Feb 10 at 10:58 am

  6. Nothing to see here – smooth streaming on iPhone used NO Silverlight – RT @alpascual: SL on iphone http://bit.ly/cGjtuO /via @poedja_p

    Bill Reiss

    3 Feb 10 at 12:47 pm

  7. RT @balexandre: Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – http://bit.ly/9KyiGI (via @microsoft_feed)

    Daniel Egan

    3 Feb 10 at 4:38 pm

  8. RT @balexandre: Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – http://bit.ly/9KyiGI (via @microsoft_feed)

    Volkan Uzun

    3 Feb 10 at 4:40 pm

  9. This is SOOOO wrong. What the demonstrated was “SmoothStreaming” running on iPhone. There is no Silverlight in the mix (Silverlight is the usual premier client to SmoothStreaming but that's it).
    Apple does not allow other runtimes on their iPhone/Touch/iPad, so this will never happen until Apple changes its mind (also the reason you don't see flash here). Of course allowing Flash and/or Silverlight to run on the iPhone would undermine Apple's AppStore, so I doubt that would ever happen.

    Morten

    3 Feb 10 at 8:50 pm

  10. a Smooth Streaming (IIS Media Services) brand void is implying Silveright Stream not client Player: http://is.gd/7DpK5 & http://is.gd/7DpMc

    brian_henderson

    3 Feb 10 at 7:33 pm

  11. RT @DanielEgan: RT @balexandre: Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – http://bit.ly/9KyiGI (via @microsoft_feed)

    Craig Taylor

    3 Feb 10 at 9:25 pm

  12. RT @balexandre: Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – http://bit.ly/9KyiGI (via @microsoft_feed)

    Raynald

    3 Feb 10 at 9:41 pm

  13. Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – http://bit.ly/9KyiGI (via @microsoft_feed)

    Raynald

    5 Feb 10 at 2:45 pm

  14. Sehr interesannt für alle #iPhone Fans: Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone | MicrosoftFeed http://ow.ly/14QDj

    Carsten Rachfahl

    7 Feb 10 at 11:05 pm

  15. Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – We do this with the HTML 5 tag, in many ways http://bit.ly/aJlvZv

    Mohamed Yehia

    15 Mar 10 at 7:01 am

  16. RT @mohdyehia: Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – We do this with the HTML 5 tag, in many ways http://bit.ly/aJlvZv

    Ahmed Badr

    15 Mar 10 at 7:05 am

  17. SL coming to iPhone now you can run SL on Windows/Mac/iPhone/Web (out of browser) http://bit.ly/bUqy4e

    Adel Khalil

    15 Mar 10 at 8:10 am

  18. Microsoft worked with Apple for Silverlight on iPhone – http://bit.ly/9KyiGI (via @microsoft_feed)

    karim moussa

    15 Mar 10 at 10:13 am

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