This might possibly be obvious to some, but in situation you had been wondering: The very first Windows Telephone seven gadgets aren;t likely to have the ability to run Silverlight within the browser.
Silverlight will be the main development platform for Windows Telephone seven. Given that Silverlight 4 isn;t rather performed but, Microsoft is offering Windows Telephone 7 developers having a version of Silverlight three enhanced with some Silverlight four characteristics, for advancement purposes, business officials said this week.
But Silverlight also is really a browser plug-in that permits viewing of multimedia content, the exact same way Adobe;s Flash does. The few smartphones that do assistance browser plug-ins like Flash assistance FlashLite, not complete Flash, for the reason that the processors in phones haven;t been powerful enough to support them.
Product Supervisor Mike Harsh noted that Silverlight won;t run within the browser on the first era of Windows Telephone seven products throughout his presentation about developing for Windows Telephone seven at Combine this week. Here;s a slide from his deck:
When I asked a spokesperson for a lot more particulars about Microsoft;s strategies to support Silverlight being a browser plug-in on phones, I received back this statement through e-mail:
“In its initial release,
Cheap Windows 7 Home Premium, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Phone. It is particularly straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Telephone. Silverlight four has not yet been released. We is going to be sharing a lot more particulars on Windows Telephone assistance for Silverlight 4 once both items 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 Phone 7 units (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 Telephone OS seven.0….
Microsoft Lead Product Manager Brian Goldfarb stated last year that Silverlight 3 would be supported on Windows Telephone seven (back when it was known as Windows Mobile seven). It was unclear at that time whether he was talking about Silverlight the development 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 Telephone 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, Martin Bennedik,
Windows 7 Professional 64, questioned Microsoft;s claim that the first iteration of the Windows Telephone seven browser wouldn;t support a plug-in model. He stated he was in a position to get Silverlight to work using the Windows Phone seven emulator.
“My Silverlight chess board is displayed, although the screen of the emulator has a great deal of flickering, and I didn;t manage to use the UI. You can verify this yourself by gonna 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 7 is not gonna meet enterprise users; needs.
In a March 18 blog post, Charlie Kindel, Microsoft Partner Group Program Supervisor for that Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience refuted the idea that Microsoft forgot about internet business users when designing Windows Telephone 7.
“Windows Phone seven Series will probably be a great enterprise telephone. We applied the same end user focus to designing the phone’s business 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 online business capabilities like email, reading and editing Office documents and collaboration, while also offering rich functions and capabilities that help people stay on top of the different parts of their lives, at home and at work.
“We expect Windows Phone seven Series to appeal to people who are active, connected and working, so Exchange & SharePoint integration and the attributes inside the new Office hub are core towards 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 enterprise decision makers they ask us to give them a compelling phone that will not only improve productivity, but also appeal to the end user’s “whole life,” as people wish to carry only one Smartphone to meet both company and personal needs. We think Windows Phone seven 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,
Cheap Office Standard 2007, and we find this kind of person in small businesses, all the way to the largest corporations. Whichever end of the spectrum they are in,
Office 2007 Ultimate, we are building a phone that works for them, in their environment.”
I;ll be interested to see if organization users agree with this assessment. So far, I;m hearing from a number of company customers that Windows Phone 7 is too consumer-focused for them to use like a hybrid platform….