Who's in charge of the 2008 world’s largest sports-related IT contract? Who takes care of 17 days of competition, 28 sports with 38 disciplines and 302 events in 7 cities? That was the original idea of this post but I ended up instead learning about how Internet TV is in full bloom as seen in the NBC Olympics Web site (run by Microsoft), which rivals The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (in 5 languages). For the NBC Olympics site Microsoft passed over the ubiquitous Adobe's Flash to run its own Silverlight technology in a sort of "coming out party" (see how video is streamed from China to your PC). In addition, you can download and watch full length Olympic events through Windows Media Center as shown here, also available for 64-bit Vista. [Atos Origin is the company in charge of the whole IT operation of these and previous Summer Games. Microsoft has a strategic global alliance agreement with them. I did not find out to what extent Microsoft is part of this huge IT operation, though].
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