This may perhaps be obvious to some, but in situation you were wondering: The very first Windows Phone 7 units aren;t likely to have the ability to run Silverlight inside the browser.
Silverlight will be the main advancement platform for Windows Telephone seven. Because Silverlight four isn;t fairly accomplished however, Microsoft is supplying Windows Telephone 7 developers with a edition of Silverlight three enhanced with some Silverlight 4 attributes, for advancement functions, corporation officials said this week.
But Silverlight also can be a browser plug-in that permits viewing of multimedia content material,
Windows 7 Home Premium X86, the same way Adobe;s Flash does. The few smartphones that do assistance browser plug-ins like Flash support FlashLite, not complete Flash, since the processors in phones haven;t been powerful enough to support them.
Product Manager Mike Harsh noted that Silverlight won;t run within the browser on the very first generation of Windows Telephone seven gadgets during his presentation about creating for Windows Phone seven at Mix this week. Here;s a slide from his deck:
When I asked a spokesperson for far more particulars about Microsoft;s programs to support Silverlight as being a browser plug-in on phones,
Buy Office Professional 2007, I obtained back this statement by way of e-mail:
“In its initial release, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Telephone. It is really straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Phone. Silverlight four has not yet been released. We might be sharing additional particulars on Windows Phone support for Silverlight 4 once both goods are inside the market. Stay tuned.”
We still don;t know exactly when Microsoft and Adobe will manage to get the Flash player on Windows Telephone 7 devices (the pair have said they;re working together to do so). I wonder if the Flash player debut ahead of Silverlight on phones running Microsoft;s Windows Phone OS 7.0….
Microsoft Lead Product Manager Brian Goldfarb mentioned last year that Silverlight three would be supported on Windows Phone 7 (back again when it was known as Windows Mobile seven). It was unclear at that time whether he was talking about Silverlight the advancement platform or Silverlight the runtime player; I think many of us assumed it was the latter.
Meanwhile, in other related news, the emulator for Windows Phone 7 has been unlocked by developer Dan Ardelean, just days after Microsoft made it available to programmers interested in getting a head start on writing apps for Windows Telephone 7.
Update: One of my readers,
Office Professional Plus Product Key, Martin Bennedik, questioned Microsoft;s claim that the first iteration of the Windows Telephone 7 browser wouldn;t support a plug-in model. He stated he was ready to get Silverlight to work using the Windows Telephone seven emulator.
“My Silverlight chess board is displayed, although the screen of the emulator has lots of flickering, and I didn;t manage to use the UI. You can verify this yourself by going to www.bennedik.de/Silverboard.html within the emulator;s browser. This wouldn;t display at all if their claim about no plug-in model would be true, I think,
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Finally, as this big week for Windows Phone 7 comes to a close, Microsoft is battling claims that Windows Phone seven is not going to meet enterprise users; needs.
In a March 18 blog post, Charlie Kindel, Microsoft Partner Group Program Supervisor for your Windows Telephone Application Platform & Developer Experience refuted the idea that Microsoft forgot about business enterprise users when designing Windows Phone seven.
“Windows Phone seven Series could be a great internet business telephone. We applied the very same end user focus to designing the phone’s company capabilities that we did with every other element of the phone. We asked people and even IT administrators what they need from a phone. The answer was consistent. They want a single device that excels at core enterprise capabilities like email, reading and editing Office documents and collaboration, while also providing rich features and capabilities that help people stay on top of the different parts of their lives, at home and at work.
“We expect Windows Telephone 7 Series to appeal to people who are active, connected and working, so Exchange & SharePoint integration and the characteristics within the new Office hub are core to the phone’s value. Similarly, we know that people add these phones to corporate networks and that we need to make that process easy for administrators. Interestingly, when we talk to corporate IT staff and home business decision makers they ask us to give them a compelling telephone that will not only improve productivity,
Windows 7 Professional Key, but also appeal to the end user’s “whole life,” as people wish to carry only one Smartphone to meet both internet business and personal needs. We think Windows Telephone 7 Series will do this better than any other phone on the market today.
For us, it’s not a matter of ‘consumer; OR ‘corporate.; We view our target customer as the kind of person who is looking to technology as a helper in their lives, and we find this kind of person in small businesses, all the way towards the largest corporations. Whichever end of the spectrum they are in, we are building a phone that works for them, in their environment.”
I;ll be interested to see if company users agree with this assessment. So far, I;m hearing from a number of small business customers that Windows Phone 7 is too consumer-focused for them to use like a hybrid platform….