Microsoft Licenses Flash Lite for Windows Mobile [Archive]

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skeen

Mar 17, 2008, 08:30 AM

They've also licensed their PDF viewing stuff. What do you guys make of this? Looks like MS is hitting Apple where it hurts.

cgray24

Mar 17, 2008, 08:46 AM

Im sorry, but the quality standards for Windows Mobile are much lower than the iPhone. Sure why not, they don't care, hopefully all the flash whiners will go over there. :-)

Even as a flash developer I don't miss flash on the iphone hardly at all. Let them figure out the best way to do it, hopefully with Adobe's help with a more streamlined Flash Lite player. Flash is entirely overused anyway.

sr5878

Mar 17, 2008, 08:58 AM

i want the 'internet in my pocket'. whether or not flash is a software mess, stupid, dumb, whatever, it still makes up a good chunk of the web, and i don't want to be limited in the event i need or want to view a flash file or website. it isn't a dealbreaker for me (obviously), but still..

kdarling

Mar 17, 2008, 10:20 AM

Yes, MS licensed FlashLite 3, which allows videos and some Flash 8 content.

Note that this is NOT the same as the two versions (FlashLite 2 and Flash Mobile 7) that Jobs was talking about.

Interesting, since MS is trying to push their own Silverlight.

I wish I had a late model Nokia... there's a developer's version of FlashLite 3 available at the Adobe mobile website. Would love to see what it can / can't do.