One of this month's Patch Tuesday patches has been discovered to leave machines vulnerable to the flaw it is supposed to fix. MS10-025 was supposed to address a problem in Windows Media Services ...

Managing streaming-media servers isn’t child’s play. Just the chore of managing the content hosted on the server can be daunting, especially when the content changes frequently. Coordinating ...

This is the final installment in our overview of the major changes expected in Windows Server 2003, which will begin Thursday. This final look is at an area I hesitate to bring up since most network ...

Microsoft released two security bulletins on Wednesday, warning of security holes in its Web server software and in Windows Media Services affecting various versions of the Windows operating system.

Amazon.com is expected to announce a deal with Microsoft on Thursday to use the latest version of the software giant's digital media technology to stream music samples from its Web site. Amazon will ...

Quick: Name a platform that can deliver two types of adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, both live and on-demand. Drawing a blank? So was I, until I saw an early September demonstration at the ...

Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the media player that comes with every version of Windows. Windows Media ...

Windows Azure Media Services is the “cloud-ification” of multiple features of Microsoft’s Media Platform, along with technologies made available from various media partners, many of which were ...

Microsoft has withdrawn a security patch issued last week for Windows 2000 Server, saying the fix did not work well enough. The patch, released in the Patch Tuesday bundle, was intended to correct a ...

The recent Windows Media Services patch has been pulled after it was discovered that it failed to fix the problem it was supposed to fix. Surprising they are even bothering to produce an updated patch ...

Windows Media formats are supported in many software and hardware-based players as well as Microsoft's own software-based Windows Media Player. The foundation container format for Windows Media is the ...