Linux Tablet Vendor Pledges Silverlight Support | Linux Today

Linux Tablet Vendor Pledges Silverlight Support

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 7, 2008

“Nokia promised to support Microsoft’s cross-platform multimedia
plugin across its major mobile device products. The Finnish
mobile-phone giant will add Silverlight support to Symbian S60
smartphones, Series 40 devices, and Linux-based Nokia Internet
tablets, it said.

“According to Microsoft, Silverlight is used for Web-based
multimedia delivery by organizations including Entertainment
Tonight, the NBA, and NBC Universal…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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