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Nokia to Support Microsoft Silverlight Web Video
Posted by Haroon Malik at 8:19 PM on March 4, 2008
Nokia has committed to bring Microsoft Silverlight video services to its S60 devices. Further, Nokia will also add support for the video content to its S40-based handsets at later stages. Given the immense market penetration of Nokia's Symbian- based mobiles, this partnering will have a large effect on mobile content support, and you can bet your bottom dollar that Adobe is feeling a little sick right now. [Reuters]
Tags: adobe | content | handsets | microsoft | mobile phones | nokia | s60 | silverlight | symbian
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bitfactory
Posted 1:40 AM 5/3/08
Adobe has nothing to worry about - I'm sure they've got their eye on SL, but honestly, even Microsoft can't buy their way into a plug-in space. Beyond that, there's a lot of bad blood with upper echelon designers who view Microsoft's abandonment of open web standards tantamount to ruining the web. I know I do, and I'd never recommend any client use it.
bitfactory
Guizzy
Posted 2:48 AM 5/3/08
Next step? Live Anywhere.
Guizzy
Paradise
Posted 7:23 AM 5/3/08
this is the last straw nokia. having worked with silverlight i can't believe nokia would allow such a highly unpolished piece of shit on their phone.
Paradise
Mio
Posted 4:48 PM 5/3/08
@Paradise: How much do you know about Silverlight? Do you know any XAML? Have you ever used it?
I have. While Silverlight 2.0 absolutely needs to be released ASAP so we can actually get some code-behind going on, Silverlight is a pretty damned neat technology.
Mio