Microsoft Silverlight media player with Nokia's S60 platform

Microsoft Silverlight media player will be coming with a version for Nokia's S60 platform for smartphones.
Nokia and Microsoft agreed on a partnership to bring Silverlight onto wireless devices for the first time. Silverlight is a cross-platform plug-in that allows develelopers to create multimedia and rich Internet applications to run from the web browser.
The mobile phone maker, Nokia, plans to reveal a beta program as well as demonstrate Silverlight applications running on the handsets. Nokia also plans to ship handsets with the runtime embedded that can run Silverlight applications, beginning first with the high-end Series 60 smartphones.
Silverlight on Series 40 phones and on Nokia's tablet devices will be available thereafter.
While Microsoft does plan to include a runtime for Silverlight in its Windows Mobile platform, it recently had chosen Nokia as the first company to take Silverlight to handsets on account of its prominent position in the mobile handset market,
Microsoft formally released Silverlight 1.0 in September 2007 as a plug-in for browsers that could work on Windows, Linux and the Mac platform. Microsoft developed the technology to displace Adobe's Flash, which currently has about 97 percent to 99 percent penetration on the Web as a technology for delivering multimedia content and RIAs.
Flash also is available on wireless devices as Flash Lite; the technology is available on more than 450 million phones, according to Adobe.
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