Microsoft And Netflix Team Up

on 05/21/2009, filed in Home > Computers

Microsoft and Netflix have come to an agreement to offer over 12,000 movies and TV episodes for instant viewing in the Windows Media Center environment, as long as the PCs involved are powered by Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Home Premium. Those who can’t wait to access the new service can do so by clicking the new Netflix tile under “TV + Movies”. Bear in mind you will still need a Netflix subscription in order to make full use of this service. The backbone of Microsoft’s new Netflix streaming solution for Windows Media Center is based on the former’s Silverlight technology, where the software will intelligently download and self-install if it detects that a system doesn’t already have.

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

Netflix: Netflix Inc is an Internet company that distributes video on-demand. As of 2012, the company operated in the USA, but also in South America, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Netflix was founded in 1997 in California and is still based in Los Gatos in the Silicon Valley. Of course, Netflix is also provides DVD rentals via regular mail, and that is actually how the company took off before becoming the entity that is said to account for 29% of USA download Internet traffic as of March 2011. Netflix is one of the largest customer of Amazon's AWS infrastructure business.

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