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Originally Posted by hajj_3
just curious about silverlight licensing costs, lets say a website with 1m views per day of a certain video, would it be cheaper for them to go with silverlight or flash? I presume you are undercutting adobe in terms of pricing, would be a bit crazy if you charged more, especially as alot of people wouldnt be able to view the videos as they'd have to download silverlight.
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Both Silverlight and Flash are free and include necessary decoder licenses. So it's more about TCO cost differences than deployment costs. And that's where we have a huge advantage for media delivery. Smooth Streaming is a free ad-in for IIS, and so available for <$400 versions of Windows Sever 2008. Flash Media Server costs quite a big multiple of that.
Also, due to proxy caching and pre-encryption, you likely would need many fewer IIS servers than Flash servers for the same audience size.
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do you have an approximate eta for silverlight3 e.g Q2 2009?
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"Later this year" was what Scott Guthrie announced at MIX.
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Will silverlight 2.0/3.0 be installed on windows 7 by default? Hope it is, would help you push websites to using silverlight compared to flash as less people would need to download it. Will you be getting OEM manufacturers to install silverlight by default eg Dell, HP etc as i'm fairly sure some OEM's may have flash installed by default. If it is installed by default on windows7 i presume there is an option to uninstall it, dont want you guys to get in trouble with the EU again.
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Silverlight isn't part of Windows 7. Which is not to say that it won't come preinstalled on machines, but that'd be up to the OEMs (some of which have announced they'll be preinstalling Silverlight).