Obama's inauguration: Silverlight coup for Microsoft

Microsoft pulled off a coup for Silverlight when it arranged for the American Presidential Inaugural Committee to use the technology for live streaming and on-demand video of Barack Obama's oath-taking ceremony this coming Tuesday. Prior to the actual swearing-in event, Obama and vice-president-elect Joe Biden will be making a Whistle Stop Tour from Philadelphia to Washington, DC. Video of their stop in Baltimore will also be available via the special website.

Brad Smith, Microsoft directing of the Legal departments, said, Microsoft is proud to be part of this event by the assistance to bring the activities of inauguration on line. For those which cannot employ Silverlight, the inauguration will be run per many of other sources of news in the flash, including the BBC.

Convention 2008 Democratic main road was also emission using Silverlight, although it was also provided by other sources in the flash.

The interest of Obama for transparency in the government is behind such is occupied, and the congress of the USA moved in the same way with the ties of form with Google-had YouTube, as reported here earlier. Criticisms, however, were fast to whether ask such ties of government the companies--and their technologies of industrial property--be in the best interests of the citizens. Questions of intimacy were also increased, since the visitors on such sites were and will leave prints of numerical steps and it is not very clear what will occur of the data collected.