Microsoft Silverlight for Nokia S60!

[owziee]

Wtf!? Microsoft Silverlight will be soon available for Nokia Symbian S60 devices, it will be demonstrated by microsoft in march...

More info: http://symbian-freak.com/news/008/03/silverlight_experiences_to_s60_users.htm

I'm getting more and more frustrated with windows mobile... Now S60 already have Flash Lite 3 (which apparently Adobe won't even develope for windows mobile :( ) and soon they'll have Silverlight aswell...

Is Microsoft giving up on windows mobile?

[FloatingFatMan]

No, they're not. Try reading this. (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901441)

MS are just adding Symbian to it's list of supported OSs, nothing more.

[owziee]

Thanks for the info.

[lennie]

reading the title I was shocked!!! :eek::eek:
I was about to get tight and throw my phone into the toilet, but then I read the rest.
I don't know why they're moving so slow when it comes to things like this on windows mobile. Microsoft should of already have a wm version of silverlight out.
and adobe frig them, they could use my socks to make soup when their really cheezy for all I care.
Silverlight should get a lot of market share and pose a competition to flash, because adobe is moving real slow,
I guess then they would speed up the development cycle.

[lennie]

is there any side by side comparison of silverlight video vs adobe video? which has the better quality with the least file size?
does anyone know or have a clue or even a guess on this matter?

[vijay555]

Guys, AIR/Flash and Silverlight are very different propositions.

Silverlight is/will eventually plug into .net (according to Bill Gates, who I had the pleasure of seeing at the VS2008 launch in London last month), bringing a huge amount of power to the platform(s).

However, AIR/Flash is light, well established, and will potentially have a massive user base ready to go. Silverlight still has a long way to go there - a solution without much of a problem at this time. Hence, Silverlight being pimped to every man and his dog.

Filesizes etc are a premature consideration at this time. It's likely developers will use the platform that will get them the best exposure with the least pain.
And, as others have observed, in the end, both platforms are likely to co-exist.

But putting Silverlight on Symbian devices is certainly not an abandoning of Windows Mobile - anything that can further entrench users in the Windows environment can only be good for Microsoft, right? Even if that is Microsoft on a Nokia.

http://www.fizzydigital.co.uk/images/johnny5.jpg

V

[lennie]

actually, they're not premature. I wanted to see the video quality on the same video to know which one would give a better view and less strain on the eyes. I do believe file size plays a huge role, well for me at least, because if silverlight videos take up less space and gives me superior or equal quality, they silverlight it is.