Microsoft to preview two Silverlight 4 features

Mary Jo Foley, the expert’s expert on all things Microsoft, reports that “Microsoft plans to add a native multicast capability, as well as support for offline digital rights management (DRM). Microsoft’s PlayReady DRM” in the next version of Silverlight, Microsoft’s attempt to knock off Adobe Flash.

That’s all we need yet another Microsoft DRM scheme to [...]

Moonlight 2 arrives and falls flat on its face

The other day, Novell’s Mono Project, announced the beta release of Moonlight 2. IN theory, this enables Linux users to watch Microsoft Silverlight encoded content. Of course, that raises the question: “What Silverlight content?”

Moonlight 2 beta sounds great. Novell states that it’s the equivalent of Microsoft Silverlight 2 and that it “gives users a platform [...]

Microsoft enters Video-on-Demand business

Hulu and the other Internet video-on-demand Web sites have a new rival: Microsoft.

Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux

When I first looked at Moonlight, Novell’s open-source version of Microsoft’s Sliverlight, I liked it, but I didn’t really see much of a point to it. Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest answer to Adobe Flash, isn’t used in many sites. What I liked the most about Silverlight was that it provided a fully legal way to access [...]