It seems that Silverlight, a new web streaming technology from Microsoft, will finally allow us to provide customers with video solutions for the web – something that was not really possible with just Windows Media.

Basically, with Silverlight we can build YouTube-like web sites hosted both on Linux and Windows, and viewable on both Windows and Mac.

Sean Alexander comments on this in the June/July edition of Streaming Media: “We’re admitting that we kind of screwed up. We didn’t have the true cross-platform support and interactivity. We’re now going after that very aggressively.” Sean also emphasizes Silverlight’s ability to do true streaming, as opposed to progressive download: “People sometimes only watch twenty seconds of a clip, but they end up downloading the whole thing. That’s not very efficient in terms of user experience and bandwidth usage. Users should be able to go to whatever part in the video they want to watch without having to wait for the entire thing to download.”

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