Microsoft is working hard on extending it's online grip in the video space. After IE7 and WMP11, the next thing on the horizon is probably the "WPF/E" (those catchy names...) - mixing in some flash-like interactivity and scripting.
Nice samples include a changing player - which keeps playing while it morphs, or a multistream player with animation bringing one video to the front on mouseover.
On a sidenote the blog has (once again) been put to the side due to the girlfriend changing jobs, buying a house and moving a lot of our stuff - and probably will be lingering until I get a new pc ordered up come 2007. The stack of notes and ideas is getting higher than it was over the summer - so a new deluge will be forthcoming.
...and the sun is almost gone for the winter - but leaves a nice red edge to the sky in the early afternoon...
