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Fact: Flash Player is the most widely installed software in the history of computing.

Question: Given today’s press release from Nokia, are Adobe going to be outmanoeuvred by Microsoft’silverlight on mobiles ?

Answer: Pull the other one, it repeats “I’m a Flash killer” in a squeaky voice

Sparked by Daren Waters over at dot.life blog

The next stage in the evolution of the mobile web has become clearer [this] … announcement is a powerful message to the internet industry. Because Nokia’s phones, and specifically those running the S60 operating system, have a dominant place in the market, with more than 53% of the market share.

It means that Silverlight could well become the standard platform for web development on a phone and that in turn could have a knock on effect on the PC because smartphone sales will overtake laptop sales any day now.

Fair enough, if it was an exclusive deal - but it isn’t. In Nokia’s own words they are: “Adding support for Silverlight” which “will extend opportunities for developers”

Today S60 developers can use: C++ (using native Symbian OS APIs and Open C providing subset of standard POSIX libraries), S60 Web Run-time (supporting standards-based web technologies such as Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML), the Java(TM) language, Flash Lite from Adobe, and Python.