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Jeff Campbell
12-01-2009, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.iphonealley.com/current/microsoft-gets-silverlight-video-streaming-on-iphone-with-apples-blessing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+iphonealley/sitewide+(iPhone+Alley+-+RSS)' target='_blank'>http://www.iphonealley.com/current/...ne+Alley+-+RSS)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"In an unlikely twist, Microsoft has successfully demonstrated streaming video powered by their Silverlight technology playing on an iPhone."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1259446918.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>Interesting quote in the article from Brian Goldfarb, who is the Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager who, when asked how they got this to work on the iPhone and Adobe failed, said "We worked with Apple." To clarify it he did say that Microsoft did all the work, they just made sure that it was all ok with Apple.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

doogald
12-01-2009, 10:03 PM
It's not a native plug-in - it's HTML5 tags with server side transcoding to H.264. There are smart guys at Microsoft. (I wonder if there will be Netflix streaming on iPhone at some point? I know that they are rumored to be working on it, but I wonder if this was part of the wait?)

Are you flash guys paying attention, Adobe?