Microsoft Corp. today announced that MSNBC.com -- the Web's most popular news site* -- has for the last two months been using the beta version of Windows Media (TM) Services in Windows® .NET Server, a core component of the upcoming, next-generation Windows Media platform, code-named "Corona." Over that time MSNBC.com has delivered more than 7 million streams to consumers worldwide using servers running the "Corona" beta software. MSNBC.com has also confirmed that using the same hardware, in one of the most demanding live production environments, this new streaming engine for Windows Media "Corona" already is delivering nearly double the scalability of the industry's most scalable server, Windows Media Services in Windows 2000 Server.
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