Microsoft Unveils Video Platform

There are reports on developments with Microsoft's new online video platform which had been called Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E). Today (Monday) in Las Vegas at NAB, Microsoft is taking the wraps off the new platform which is called Microsoft Silverlight. It's all part of the new Microsoft Expression initiative. It won't go live for another two weeks, but there are demos around. Like the ubiquitous Adobe Flash video ecosystem, Silverlight will provide a range of authoring and encoding tools to create rich media, notably video. Like Flash, the new video will play on the browser (IE, Safari, Firefox) with the download of a 2MB application.