Microsoft's Flash-challenging Silverlight media player could be the hidden secret driving Windows Phone 7, the Redmond mobile OS unveiled this week.
Silverlight will be named the platform for building native applications in Windows Phone 7 and future generations of Windows Phones at next month's Mix conference, unnamed sources have told CRN.
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With Silverlight 4, which is already in beta, there are signs that when it comes to the PC Microsoft is starting to tailor its player to machines running Windows. It's doing that using Internet Explorer and COM.
Already, Windows Phone 7 devices are displaying signs of lock-in - only at a hardware level, as phones will feature a back and a Bing button.
Flash and mobile devices.
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- 8700 posts since 9 Jan, 2004 from leroyaumeuni
After all the Apple bashing about the iPhone and iPad not supporting Flash, I wonder if there's going to be as much outcry about Windows Phone 7 not supporting Flash.. or the fact that Microsoft seems to be on course for locking in its phones to PCs.
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