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Olympics With Silverlight

I missed this last week, but it appears that the 2008 Olympics in China will be made available online via Microsoft Silverlight.  Every minute of every event will be available on-demand.  Read more about it on Soma's blog.

Obviously, this is a pretty major win for Microsoft as it tries to get penetration of Silverlight on as many browsers as possible.  Millions of people will use this service to view the Olympics, and the result should be a huge increase in adoption of Silverlight this summer.  Kudos, Microsoft.

Published Monday, January 14, 2008 12:53 PM by ssmith
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# re: Olympics With Silverlight

A major win for Microsoft,  you say.

I wonder how much money they had to spend to make this happen. In my opinion, a "win" occurs when you go up against others based on your merits, not always how much money you spend. This same exactly thing could have happened with any other online video technology.

I'm not saying Silverlight is good or bad, I'm just raising the possibility that Microsoft may have paid dearly for this to happen.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:02 AM by Russ Nemhauser

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