"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," Goldfarb responded. But it contained these four amazing words: "We worked with Apple." How did this happen? We asked Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager Brian Goldfarb last week at PDC 2009, and the answer was a huge surprise.followed by some caveats. You'd think Apple would have stood firm against Microsoft at least as aggressively as it has against Adobe, if not more so. It's all the more impressive when you realize that Flash video still has not made its way (permanently) to the iPhone, not for any technical reasons we know of.simply because Apple wants to control the video channel for streaming media to its devices.Īnd yet here it is, a Microsoft stream. It was an impressive demonstration, once they got it working: H.264 video streaming wirelessly (and slowly, at least during the caching sequence) using Microsoft's Silverlight video streaming, to an Apple iPhone.
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