Microsoft will be using their Silverlight technology to broadcast Barack Obamas presidential inauguration. Silverlight is a relatively new technology from Microsoft that is quite similar to Adobe Flash. It can be used in streaming and video applications.

For the inauguration, Silverlight will be used for on-demand video streaming of the event on the PIC website.

So for those of you interested in seeing Silverlight at work and the inauguration, then you can check this out on the PIC website, the link is below.

http://www.pic2009.org