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Macromedia Flash Video brings Microsoft and Apple together (sort off)

July 13th, 2004 | Category: Site Seeing.

Nice to see how Microsoft uses Macromedia Flash Video to promote it’s new Office version for Apple’s Mac platform. Macromedia brings Microsoft and Apple together ;-)

Another nice Flash Video presentation linked to from Microsoft’s homepage is their Taste Of Tomorrow. Despite some reports on other weblogs and mailinglists, I am actually not convinced that these presentations are served through a Macromedia Flash Communication Server backend.

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  1. 1 Peter Jul 13th, 2004 at 5:45 pm

    I’m beginning to doubt if that “Taste of Tomorrow” presentation is powered through Flash Communication Server.

    They are likely using some FLV video in the visualisation section but I think its done as progressive download through HTTP, don’t see another compelling reason why they’d check for the Flash 7 player.

  2. 2 Waldo Smeets Jul 13th, 2004 at 5:50 pm

    Same thoughts here. Also, the preloader takes too long in my opinion. I don’t think this would have to be the case if it was FCS driven.

  3. 3 Jim Richards Jul 21st, 2004 at 7:33 pm

    What is amazing is that everything looks better on a Mac! and even when Microsoft does a presentation for Mac people they design it with apple touch!
    Very good job!

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