Microsoft confirms Silverlight for Windows Mobile 7

Microsoft said its forthcoming Windows Mobile 7 operating system will integrate its Silverlight 3.0 web application framework. "We are 100 percent dedicated to seeing Silverlight across all three screens--PC, TV and mobile," Brian Goldfarb, marketing director for Microsoft's Silverlight team, tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Microsoft Blog. While previous versions of Silverlight were deployed as a media player or platform for website development, Goldfarb said version 3.0--introduced in July--is positioned as a platform for third-party application development. "We look at Silverlight as a sort of comprehensive runtime platform," Goldfarb added, calling Silverlight 3.0 "a cross-browser, cross-platform, cross-device solution." Microsoft is expected to launch Windows Mobile 7 sometime in 2010.

In August, The Boy Genius Report said Research In Motion is planning to integrate [1] [1] full Silverlight and Adobe Flash support into future versions of its BlackBerry web browser. RIM likely will not introduce Silverlight and Flash support until the summer of 2010--in the interim, the handset maker must achieve higher data speeds to support its proposed web features.

For more on Silverlight's mobile future:
- read this Seattle P-I article [2]

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