Microsoft licenses Flash for WM

Posted By: Rossj | Mar 17th, 2008 @ 12:19 PM
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#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 12:19 PM
Rossj
Rossj
Well.

I never saw this coming, I guess Silverlight mobile is still a way off yet. Either that or they are waiting until WM has a decent browser - we'll see.


#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 12:35 PM
stevo_
stevo_
Human after all

I don't see why it shouldn't happen.. from the standpoint of mobile, they want as richer platform as they can give.. flash developers arent all going to throw their tools away to do silverlight.

#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 12:38 PM
Cybermagellan
Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything
For some reason I see Microsoft Silverlight has just installed Adobe Flash on your Mobile Device....for more information click or tap here.
#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 12:39 PM
jamie
jamie
i see Jobs saying flash lite sucks - then MS licencing it.  not sure what that means
#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 12:41 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Some sort of war for mobile developer sympathy? iPhone SDK on one side, WM with Flash on the other?

#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 2:02 PM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.
Well, if they preloaded WM with just Silverlight, that would cause controversy wouldn't it?

Maybe they're planning on this scenario allowing a sort of side by side comparison between Flash and Silverlight.
#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 2:44 PM
GoddersUK
GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!
No more anti trust cases?

Tongue Out

We can always hope Smiley
#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 3:07 PM
Jason Cox
Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker
GoddersUK wrote:
No more anti trust cases?
Honestly that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this story; With Microsoft licensing Flash, Adobe really cant say that they're locking Flash out of WM and doing anything anti-competitive.
#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 3:59 PM
DigitalDud
DigitalDud
Isn't Flash Lite pretty much useless anyway?  I don't think its going to handle YouTube or anything like that.
#Mar 17th, 2008 @ 6:53 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
jamie wrote:
i see Jobs saying flash lite sucks - then MS licencing it.  not sure what that means
MS is OK with sloppy second?
#Mar 18th, 2008 @ 9:11 PM
esoteric
esoteric
λ
Short-term Pragmatism?
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