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 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

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