Microsoft and Nokia get together on Silverlight

Robert give that Google is threatening both Microsoft (Google Apps) and Nokia (Android)it is not too surprising.

And I am sure that Flash support was announced in the SDK.

The bigger worries is in the past when MSFT dominant its competitors often tried to form alliances to prevent it gaining market share and it didn’t work.

If MSFT buy Yahoo partner with Nokia and even manage to announce a new Office online will people stop using Google for search and advertising. I don’t think so. Companies have life cycles and it feels like MSFT is start in their done cycle and making its last big noise plays.

Well, they are abandoning Symbian for their high-end models as well, but it won’t do the day. Nothing is going to beat OS X as a mobile OS. They are smoked.

I suspect Microsoft greased the wheels here by offering to do most of the development but even without that I don’t find this shocking.

From Nokia’s perspective I think Apple is a big threat to them and Android has the potential to be just as bad. Since Apple and Google seem to be in bed together Nokia’s best move is to reach out to the other major player as a stop gap (the enemy of my enemy is my friend). That’s how you get this alliance.

What I find interesting about this is that Adobe now becomes the wildcard. They can support both sides or tip the scale one way or the other. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the tech industry it’s that there are very few secrets. Adobe had to know about this and the Google Gears announcement well in advance and they almost certainly have a mobile strategy of their own mapped out.

Yeah of course, Adobe has to have something up their sleeves, then again maybe not.

“The only thing that would be more shocking is if Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone were going with Silverlight instead of Flash.”

I’ll put down a fiver that Silverlight will never appear on the iPhone.* Apparently an Adobe source (unamed and rumored) has mentioned that Flash is on its way to the iPhone.

* Not with Apple’s co-operation. If the impending iPhone SDK allows it, then never becomes possible.

Why are Nokia going for Silverlight?

Because they don’t know squat about web yet web is part of their big new strategy. I bet Microsoft threw a ton of money at wining & dining them, and ultimately offered a very attractive deal. MS badly need some Silverlight success stories… United through mutual desperation.

I’d think that one key issue here is the Microsoft’s global content delivery network providing “highly distributed, low latency, high scale delivery of Silverlight apps and media”.
[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ozzie/04-30-07MIX.mspx]
So, Nokia can tap into, and build on that infrastructure.

Oh god, never buying nokia again.

Sorry guys, I avoid M$ like the plague and you made the wrong decision, so now accept the consequences of market backlash.

And please don’t whine, we just don’t buy nokia, period.

Ah that sucks. I like Nokia, but this really is a thumbs down for me

Ups. Make that *from me*

It must pain the ‘softies greatly to write software that runs on something other than Windows.

You can be sure that Nokia will be “encouraged” to switch to WinCE for all their phones, and that Silverlight for non-WinCE will be quietly dropped the moment they do.

It’ll be interesting to see how the decisions are made about the hosting of Silverlight/Flash/Air on specific devices/platforms. What will be the factor that makes an organisation decide one way or the other? Will any of it be relevent in 18 months time when the battle has been won or is there no war to be had?

That last line about iPhone supporting Silverlight made me laugh more so hard Thanks for that!

It would be very interesting to know if porting of Silverlight to Nokia Internet tablets means that they will do version of Silverlight for Linux. Most of Nokia’s Internet tablets use version based on Maemo (that is a Debian-based development platform for handheld devices, as Wikipedia says).

It could be interesting to see if Microsoft is widening it’s support to have allow cross-platform applications easily made that could run on both Windows and Linux (in addition to other platforms).

Not surprised because i knew a little about what is going on, and people seem to forget that nokia was also the one to get a mobile live suite in a phone even before WM had it.

Nokia and Microsoft working together for initiatives is nothing rare now.

along money Microsoft wants to convince Nokia to do a High End WM device just like all the other big phone companies by offering Silverlight, full exchange support, a new mobile live suite and there are even rumors of a post of the latest mobile office (6.1) to nokia.

silverlight would be the third thing that materializes from these four in one form or another, so there is only one to go and nokia pushing it into a broader scope.

Silverlight in the iphone?, yes i would say it should happen this year too.

For those that still doubt about Silverlight getting adoption, i must remind you that the Olympics advanced online content will be exclusive to Silverlight and that this Olympics will be the most watched online even in all history up till now?

@Daniel:

Silverlight runs in linux via MONO and it will also run in the next mobile linux. so there you go.

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Hey, I have read about Nokia and Yahoo DDD

It is indeed huge news. I was tracking the keynote at
http://colinizer.com/category/mix08/

It’s really agonising that it’s been 2 years since the first WPF/E demo on Windows Mobile and still no availability date.