Microsoft has signed a deal with Nokia to bring its Silverlight platform to millions of mobile phones. If you are wondering what on earth Silverlight is, it is essentially a browser plugin that enables rich web content such as animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback.
Allowing the software to run on the Symbian operating system on Nokia mobiles marks an extremely aggressive push for Microsoft into the mobile web space as well as what might be the beginning of the end for watered down, clunky mobile web browsing. The union is also an unlikely consolidation of efforts between two companies that have been competing in various areas of mobile technology.
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