Strange Bedfellows: Microsoft's Silverlight to Stream On Adobe's Flash Light 3

We read with interest ZDNet's Larry Dignan's take on the unlikely announcement that Microsoft's Silverlight will run on Adobe's new mobile Flash platform called Flash Light 3.

From our standpoint, Adobe's new Flash player for the phone is pretty awesome. We got this demo earlier this month with Rhett Woods at the Adobe offices in San Francisco. You gotta check this out. For more information the early deployment of Flash Lite 3 in the United States, see my earlier post.

Here is the press release from Adobe on all this.

-- Andy Plesser

Posted on 03/17/2008 at 1:05 PM
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Len, thanks very much for clarifying this. It's a tough one to figure out and I appreciate your help.
andy

Posted by: andy plesser | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 06:44 AM

Yes, me too, I think its rather so that MSFT is licensing Adobe's solution since their own won't do well enough.

Posted by: Frenchman | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 11:17 AM

I think that your headline for this post is a bit misleading. Silverlight isn't going to stream on Flash Light 3; unless I misunderstood them, neither the Adobe press release nor Larry Dignan's column said this. Rather, Microsoft has licensed Flash Light 3 for Windows Mobile. Right now, the Silverlight footprint is too large for mobile phones, so Flash Light 3 will serve as at least an interim solution, but not for streaming Silverlight content. Flash Light 3 will stream Flash, not Silverlight, content.

Posted by: Len Feldman | Monday, March 17, 2008 at 05:58 PM