Rumours about Nokia’s plans to make MS Silverlight available for S60 platform that runs on Symbian OS, were finally approved by Nokia’s officials. What’s more, The world’s biggest cell-phone producer is targeting on its Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets to make them compatible with MS Silverlight.
Knowing the fact that S60 is commonly used on more smartphone’s, than any other, the Microsoft company is on its way to ‘bit a big chunk’ with their new product with a shiny name – Silverlight. As you might know, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering media experiences and interactive applications. Adding supports is one of the most important features of Silverlight, because it extends opportunities for developers to create multi-platform applications.
On March 5, 2008 the day of Microsoft’s sold out MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote. Silverlight was intended to be available for S60 developers later that year with initial service delivery anticipated shortly thereafter for all S60 licensees. Since then there were no fresh rumors over the Giant’s latest collaboration, but we hope to get brilliant results from what was planned to do.
On July 9, 2009 Microsoft released its latest version of their new cross browser plug-in called Silverlight 3.0 that has been already rumored to be Flash’s strongest competitor. At its core, Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser .NET plug-in that renders XAML (an XML-based language that may be used to define graphical assets, user interfaces, behaviors, animations, and more) and enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and RIAs for browsers. Silverlight supports the display of high-definition video files, and importantly, Microsoft took a pledge of sending them over the Net (for as you know streaming HD video could be sometimes really expensive) by thus opening new opportunities for smaller developers. Indeed, Microsoft promised reliable 700kbps throughput for media files, and free distribution of all content on its network for one year.