{"id":9477,"date":"2009-02-27T08:40:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2009-02-27T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"couple-of-announcements-i-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9477","title":{"rendered":"Couple of Announcements I Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just <a title=\"read\" href=\"http:\/\/edge.technet.com\/Media\/A-Big-Week-of-Announcements\/\">read<\/a> a couple of announcements that I missed. <\/p>\n<p>A customer technical preview release (CTP1 \u2013 a pre-beta build) of SQL 2008 Service Pack 1 was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/sqlreleaseservices\/archive\/2009\/02\/23\/sql-server-2008-service-pack-1-sp1-ctp.aspx\">released<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Smooth Streaming for IIS7 is available as a beta release for <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9652121\">x86<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9652122\">x64<\/a> and as a <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9588072\">Web Platform Installer<\/a>.\u00a0 There\u2019s more information <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.iis.net\/jboch\/archive\/2008\/10\/28\/i-ve-seen-the-future-and-the-future-is-smooth.aspx\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iis.net\/extensions\/SmoothStreaming\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The idea is simple enough: provide a<em> \u201cmedia experience that starts up instantly, seeks instantly, and delivers the best quality that network and CPU conditions allow for\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 It sounds like some of the functions that Silverlight can do with media that local developer evangelist, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/martharotter\/\">Martha Rotter<\/a>, has been talking about.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a couple of announcements that I missed. A customer technical preview release (CTP1 \u2013 a pre-beta build) of SQL 2008 Service Pack 1 was released. Smooth Streaming for IIS7 is available as a beta release for x86 and x64 and as a Web Platform Installer.\u00a0 There\u2019s more information here and here.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Couple of Announcements I Missed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}