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They say better late than never, and Microsoft seems to be taking this to heart in promoting their Silverlight platform, aiming to spread it as far and wide as possible, in a slew of different devices and especially in mobile phones. So far, only devices running on Windows Mobile 6 and Symbian Series 60 support Silverlight, although Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of Microsoft’s Developer Division has mentioned that they plant to implement it on even more devices very soon. So it seems that they couldn’t care less about the existence of Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Quicktime plug-in, that they can make this claim boldly and appear confident amongst their competitors. While it may be hard to judge who will really win these plug-in wars at this point, it wouldn’t be a surprise if one of the currently existing, established and more popular platform does. It would also be interesting to see how these mobile platforms would fare with those built for the desktop, and of course against those that are meant for the Web. In the meantime, let’s wait for Microsoft to announce what mobile platform they’ll be rolling out support for next. Motorola could benefit from this, though.

Via [IntoMobile]

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Adobe is up and about this past few days. After launching Photoshop Express, here comes Adobe announcing that it’s AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), a cross operating system runtime used for developing various web applications that run both online and offline. Adobe AIR for Linux joins Windows and Mac in giving users with a rich interface to develop their applications.

“Adobe’s decision to join the LF is a natural extension of its commitment to open standards and open source, which demonstrates its leadership and foresight in the software industry,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “Adobe’s membership will contribute to our goal of increasing even more application development on Linux with a specific emphasis on Web 2.0 applications.”

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