Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Microsoft Bites Bullet, Licenses Adobe's Flash Lite for Windows Mobile
Posted by Pete Paxton in "Smartphone News" @ 08:00 AM
"Microsoft is expected to shore-up its much maligned Internet Explorer Mobile browser this morning by announcing new Flash Lite support. We have no idea when the new plug-in technology (including Reader LE for PDFs) might make it into Windows Mobile. Nevertheless, with the far superior Skyfire and Opera Mobile 9.5 mobile browsers already supporting Flash Lite, and Microsoft's own competing Silverlight not expected to go mobile until the end of the year, it can't be long now can it?"
Does this make anyone else want to laugh? I mean welcome to the party Microsoft! It's about time! Shouldn't Microsoft be leading the way instead of always dragging their behinds? Do you think they read sites like this and the many others that are constantly ripping on them? It's becoming a joke how one of the richest companies in the world is also one of the least innovative and last to integrate technologies. We're just now getting flash? Am I supposed to be excited about this? Seriously Microsoft, step it up. Become the leader you have the money to be. What do you all think? Am I being too harsh or does MS need to "wow" us - and soon?
Does this make anyone else want to laugh? I mean welcome to the party Microsoft! It's about time! Shouldn't Microsoft be leading the way instead of always dragging their behinds? Do you think they read sites like this and the many others that are constantly ripping on them? It's becoming a joke how one of the richest companies in the world is also one of the least innovative and last to integrate technologies. We're just now getting flash? Am I supposed to be excited about this? Seriously Microsoft, step it up. Become the leader you have the money to be. What do you all think? Am I being too harsh or does MS need to "wow" us - and soon?
