Microsoft showed the demo of the first developer beta of Silverlight 4 last week at the Professional Developer’s Conference, , which includes support for Google’s Chrome browser. It turns out that Chrome isn’t the only competitor’s product with Silverlight in its future though. Betanews interviewed a Microsoft manager who revealed and showed off Silverlight video streaming on the iPhone and an interesting development is that Microsoft got the green signal from Apple to work on it.
This totally different stance that Apple had took from Adobe Flash, which currently has plans for all mobile platforms except for the iPhone. This could be a big win for Microsoft and Silverlight content developers because having the ability to get content to mobile phone users is extremely important. Although Silverlight has uses far beyond video, it does streaming video extremely well. Silverlight’s native content type is MPEG-2 v8. What Microsoft did was build a server-side solution with IIS Media Services. What this means is that when a content owner uploads content that has been optimized for smooth streaming, they can have the option of enabling that content on the iPhone.
Although largely associated with streaming video, Silverlight actually has the ability to run full web applications. However, where Microsoft will first be focussing its efforts is in bringing Silverlight video streaming to the iPhone.
Silverlight’s native content type is MPEG-2 v8. What Microsoft did was build a server-side solution with IIS Media Services. What this means is that when a content owner uploads content that has been optimized for smooth streaming, they can have the option of enabling that content on the iPhone too.
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