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"Nokia and Microsoft are working together to bring Silverlight to Symbian S60 mobile phones, as well as Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets. Silverlight will be available to S60 developers later this year, with initial service delivery following shortly. \nScoble, perhaps accurately, calls the move unexpected; however, Nokia has been working together with Microsoft quite a lot before. \"Nokia's software strategy is based on cross-platform development environments, enabling the creation of rich applications across the Nokia device range. Nokia aims to support market leading and content rich internet application environments and to embrace and encourage open innovation. By working with Microsoft, we are creating terrific opportunities and additional choices for the development community, S60 licensees and the industry as a whole,\" said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President in Nokia's Devices software organization. \nThis is an important development for Silverlight which hasn't really caught on the way Microsoft intended. With this deal, Silverlight will spread to millions of devices worldwide (remember, Nokia is still the market leader with Symbian OS having a 67% share of the smartphone market. On the other hand, it's going to meet tough competition in the form of iPhone SDK (which might come alongside with support for Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, a direct Silverlight competitor); those who have tried both the iPhone and a Symbian S60 device can testify that the application deployment on the iPhone is a far more pleasant experience, and with a real SDK and a big fanbase, I expect thousands of great iPhone apps to show up early this year. Nokia and Microsoft might want to hurry on this one."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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