Microsoft sees Silverlight opportunity on Android, Apple balks

Microsoft’s rival to Adobe’s Flash plugin, SIlverlight, hasn’t exactly set the Internet on fire so far, but Microsoft aren’t giving up just yet.

In fact, they see the mobile space as somewhere they could make real inroads.  Sadly, Apple are refusing to play ball and allow a Silverlight interpreter for theiPhone (no huge surprises there) but Microsoft’s other arch rival, Google, might just provide them with the in they need.

“[The] Google phone is slightly different.” says Microsoft VP Scott Guthrie, “It’s more of an open platform, that is something we’re going to continue to look at”

Silverlight already runs on the desktop version of Android’s Chrome browser , so a portable version looks like it can’t be too far off.

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