Following on from the recent announcement of a deal between Nokia and Microsoft to run Silverlight on its handsets. There are rumours that Microsoft will build a version of Silverlight to work on the iPhone.
Microsoft is aiming to take a share of the RIA market from Adobe Flash and this approach would certainly provide another push. Their aim is to provide Silverlight across all available mobile platforms, not only for Windows based devices.
It is unclear exactly how the proposed pricing plan from Apple would affect downloads of Silverlight to the iPhone would Apple charge for each download of Silverlight from iTunes?
However, this is unlikely to be much of a problem considering they do work together occasionally. This was demonstrated by the recent collaboration between Apple and Microsoft in providing ActiveSync technology for the iPhone that allows e-mail to be pushed directly to Mobile devices from Microsoft’s Exchange Server.
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