By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager A few months ago I wrote a post on the innovative ways publishers are going digital like Tribune with its Mosaic eReader , an application designed for a variety of consumer devices that allows users...

Our super busy NAB 2011 ended last week and we’ve mostly recovered! Our best laid plans of blogging from the show didn’t quite pan out since everyone was rushed off their feet the entire time. Perhaps this isn’t too surprising since...

Quantel interviews Microsoft's David Sayed, marketing manager for the Microsoft Media Platform , to talk with about some of his thoughts about this year’s NAB show and to share his view on some of the key trends he’s seeing in the industry...

The Microsoft Media Platform provides a comprehensive set of functions to support encoding, delivering and playing rich media to virtually any type of network connected device. Built on the powerful foundations of Windows Server, IIS, Expression Encoder...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager As you already know, we’re in the midst of a massive shift to digital content. The reasons are excellent—it’s more cost, time and resource efficient, as well as environmentally...

Meet Keith Barnett, Marketing Manager for Communications Sector Media & Entertainment group. Keith is responsible for marketing and partnerships in the media and entertainment industry. How long have you been at Microsoft and what were you doing...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager Traditional print publications are facing the challenge of staying relevant in an increasingly digital world. According to VOCUS in their State of the Media 2011 report , 451 newspapers shut down...

Cloud computing innovation continues to grow across the country. Microsoft released the results of a survey this week that focused on the top 10 cloud-friendly cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager UltraViolet is a word more people should get to know and I’m not talking about Ultraviolet rays that causes a mean sunburn on the beaches of Southern California. This UltraViolet is a good...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager Paramount Digital Entertainment announced today the availability of a brand new “School of Rock” app in the Windows Phone Marketplace that lets smartphone owners watch the full movie...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager Momentum is building. Today, at PDC 2010 (the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference here in Redmond), we announced growing adoption of Windows Azure, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 and...

By Jake Winett, Microsoft Communications Sector M&E Industry Director Forest. Trees. Digital. These are three words that I would use to describe many of the discussions I sat in on last week at the Media Innovations Summit conference held at...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager Recently Dene Schonknecht, Global Media & Entertainment Solution Manager at Microsoft, spoke at a Screen Digest and Level 3 Webinar on online video quality alongside Jaime Miles, Head of...

By Keith Barnett, M&E Industry Marketing Manager I sat in on our fourth, annual ‘Dialogue @ IBC 2010’ event on Friday to hear Microsoft’s Joseph Hanania, VP of Communications Sector Industry, Gabriele Di Piazza, MD, Media &...

By Gabriele Di Piazza, managing director, Media & Entertainment Business, Communications Sector I recently sat down at the 2010 NAB Show with Fred Dawson of ScreenPlays to discuss how some of our solutions, specifically around digital content...

By Keith Barnett, Microsoft M&E Industry Marketing Manager As I was watching highlights of the World Cup matches the other night, I wondered how such a global event is consumed by people worldwide. Just like the Olympics, the World Cup takes...

By Keith Barnett, Microsoft M&E Industry Marketing Manager At NAB this year, we announced a new software tool called Silverlight Rough Cut Editor (RCE). This tool is helping editors and media organizations around the world push content out...

By Jake Winett Following an interview this winter with POST Magazine's editor, Randi Altman, I was invited to provide some thoughts on current industry trends, what I'm hearing from our M&E customers and how we're working with those companies to...

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For those of you not able to get down to Las Vegas this week for the 2010 NAB Show, you can now take a virtual 3D tour of the Microsoft booth courtesy of Microsoft Photosynth! Click and zoom around the booth for an insider’s look at all the activity on...

Media Solutions Architect Jit Gosh recaps day 1 from the Microsoft booth at NAB. I spent the first day of NAB mostly at our booth, and was floored by the amount of new technologies we are demonstrating. It will take a few posts to list all of them...

Principal Architect Evangelist Michael Scherotter discusses the recently announced Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework, one of the most talked about demonstrations this week at Microsoft’s NAB booth. Since we announced the Microsoft Silverlight...

At NAB 2010, April 12-15th come visit the Microsoft booth located in the South Hall #SL220 Microsoft will present a strong vision to the industry for "The Digital Supply Chain, SIMPLIFIED." We have planned a comprehensive set of customer deployed...

by Ted Malone Microsoft today unveiled the next version of its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform - Microsoft Mediaroom 2.0 - which enables subscription TV providers to deliver more digital entertainment to more screens, using a single cloud...

by Robin Laylin Surprise! Monetization is top of mind On day two of Advertising Week, the focus appears to be on concrete challenges the media industry is facing on the business side. The word ‘monetization' came up repeatedly. And not surprisingly...