Microsoft may bring Silverlight to Android

[probigeorge11]

yeah it would be great for porn too haha

[MattyMatt5481]

yeah it would be great for porn too haha

yes it would

[doomcomplex]

Someone asked why Microsoft would develop anything for Android, since Android is a competing OS. The answer's pretty simple: Microsoft wants people to use Silverlight, but it hasn't caught on. If MS can get Silverlight onto the Android before Flash, it'll increase their market for Silverlight.

[secrecyguy]

Silverlight was used by NBC during the Olympics and it looked very, very good. Of course it's not as widespread as Flash, but I heard that MS has exclusive deals with several content providers on the web so it may become more popular in the future. The bottom line is it can't hurt to have it, especially since the iPhone doesn't. If this is true, hopefully it will motivate Adobe as well.

I hope it does get Adobe to make a Flash player for the Android.

[secrecyguy]

Someone asked why Microsoft would develop anything for Android, since Android is a competing OS. The answer's pretty simple: Microsoft wants people to use Silverlight, but it hasn't caught on. If MS can get Silverlight onto the Android before Flash, it'll increase their market for Silverlight.

Oh... that does make sense now...

[JAWheat411]

I have actually never seen anything using Silverlight.
And I think myself as a computer/internet advanced user.

[mwenn1]

Microsoft uses a lot of silverlight, and if you watched any of the olympics online you saw silverlight. The site was done with all silverlight, hopefully the g1 will show both flash and silverlight soon.

[richard]

And really, just how big is Silverlight? Seriously, I don't know of a single site outside of the MS domain that uses it.

Silverlight 2.0 isn't out yet. Once it is, I think it's going to be pretty big. I'm doing Silverlight development for a client of mine right now, and you can do some really awesome stuff with it. We've done some testing with streaming media over an EDGE connection to mobile devices and the picture quality is great. If Android developers get anything like what us .NET devs have to work with, you'll see some great stuff, for sure...

[refused9150]

Silverlight 2.0 isn't out yet. Once it is, I think it's going to be pretty big. I'm doing Silverlight development for a client of mine right now, and you can do some really awesome stuff with it. We've done some testing with streaming media over an EDGE connection to mobile devices and the picture quality is great. If Android developers get anything like what us .NET devs have to work with, you'll see some great stuff, for sure...

I believe it came out yesterday.

[RussianSolja]

not a flash plugin

well its something to that effect.