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The BBC has hired another Microsoft executive in a shakeup of its digital media technology teams earlier this week.
Jon Billings was appointed to a new team responsible for the development of the nextgeneration of the BBC iPlayer earlier this week. He is a former programmanager in Microsoft's digital media division.
Free software advocates have accused the BBC of being "corrupted" byRedmond. Erik Huggers is now in charge of the future media andtechnology group and used to be Microsoft's digital media director.
The beta releaseof the current iteration of iPlayer in July, on PCs with Windows XP andInternet Explorer, instantly hit criticism. Many couldn't download it,those who did reported it was more like an alpha release, and switchingoff the Kontiki P2P software behind it is complicated.
Platform independence is a certainty, but if our analysis iscorrect, implicit support for Microsoft technologies will only increase.
The original iPlayer service underwent a 5-month trial of 5000 broadband users, that began in October 2005 and finished on February 28, 2006. The technology and infrastructure is being provided by Kontiki, Siemens Business Services (formerly BBC Technology), and Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast). A new, improved iPlayer service then had another very limited user trial which began on November 15, 2006. From the 27th July the service has been in public beta with several thousand invites being given out each day.
The BBC has hired another Microsoft executive in a shakeup of its digital media technology teams earlier this week.
Jon Billings was appointed to a new team responsible for the development of the nextgeneration of the BBC iPlayer earlier this week. He is a former programmanager in Microsoft's digital media division.
Free software advocates have accused the BBC of being "corrupted" byRedmond. Erik Huggers is now in charge of the future media andtechnology group and used to be Microsoft's digital media director.
The beta releaseof the current iteration of iPlayer in July, on PCs with Windows XP andInternet Explorer, instantly hit criticism. Many couldn't download it,those who did reported it was more like an alpha release, and switchingoff the Kontiki P2P software behind it is complicated.
Platform independence is a certainty, but if our analysis iscorrect, implicit support for Microsoft technologies will only increase.
The original iPlayer service underwent a 5-month trial of 5000 broadband users, that began in October 2005 and finished on February 28, 2006. The technology and infrastructure is being provided by Kontiki, Siemens Business Services (formerly BBC Technology), and Red Bee Media (formerly BBC Broadcast). A new, improved iPlayer service then had another very limited user trial which began on November 15, 2006. From the 27th July the service has been in public beta with several thousand invites being given out each day.