Not easy to push a technology when the competitor has become an essential standard. After announcing that Silverlight, its new platform to display multimedia content would soon be available on mobile phones (Nokia, and Windows Mobile),
Microsoft informs that Flash Lite will soon be implemented in Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Mobile.
The plugin by Microsoft to allow access to 80% of rich content on a smartphone running Windows Mobile, including Youtube.
No release dates announced, but anyway the plugin will probably not be available for download (as opposed to Flash 7 for Windows Mobile) since it comes directly from manufacturers or vendors of mobile OS by its creator Adobe.
Good news seems to come as a response to the debate last week: Flash Mobile, the plugin that could change everything ... if it existed. Friends mobile users, there is almost!
Soon a mobile version of Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft believes firmly in his Silverlight application and prove it by announcing that it will soon be available for Nokia Series 60 smartphones at first, then Windows Mobile then, all during 2008.
Silverlight Mobile
Remember that Silverlight is a plugin multi-platform (not yet available on Linux but it will soon) that can display video and multimedia animation in web browsers, in direct competition with Flash and frontal.
This, even when we called Microsoft, is not easy when you know that Flash is installed natively on most browsers or operating systems, with a penetration rate exceeding 90%
Microsoft then pushes its Flash alternative to signing a partnership with Nokia that will allow the terminal Finnish mark to access rich content, including video, distributed with Silverlight.
A roundabout way to quickly take market share, rather than trying to attack directly Flash on its site: the Internet is increasingly accessed via mobile devices, Microsoft sends a strong signal that takes advantage of the delay (or absence, see iPhone) the siting of Flash on smartphones to settle en masse, hoping to encourage developers to turn to its platform at the expense of essential plugin from Adobe.
Hopefully this is good news for users in the sense that this competition could finally announced Adobe awaken and encourage them to quickly provide advanced Flash and finally directly compatible with sites offering multimedia content, such as Dailymotion or by Deezer example.
