Windows Mobile Standard Software: Windows Media Player, Microsoft Silverlight, Google Maps, Skype, Skyfire, Microsoft Office Mobile

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Windows Media Player, Microsoft Silverlight, Google Maps, Skype, Skyfire, Microsoft Office Mobile, Adobe Flash Lite, Internet Explorer Mobile, The Core Pocket Media Player, IbisBrowser, MobiTV, Firefox for mobile, High Capacity Color Barcode, Handango, Adaptation kit upgrade, EQO, Windows Live Messenger Mobile, Total Commander, Bing Mobile, Documents To Go, UZard Web, Microsoft Live Labs Deepfish, Kinoma, Nuvoiz Communicator, SyncShield, StyleTap, Smartmovie, ISilo, FreeRange WebReader, Hubdog, Microsoft Voice Command, Yahoo! Go, Pocket Scheme. Excerpt: Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for most web browsers. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, current versions support multimedia, graphics and animation, and give developers support for CLI languages and development tools. Silverlight is also one of the two application development platforms for Windows Phone 7. By mid 2011 Microsoft will have released 5 versions over the course of 4 years: the first version was released in 2007; the current version, 4, was released in April 2010 and the 5th version is scheduled for release in the second half of 2011. It is compatible with multiple web browsers used on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Mobile devices, starting with Windows Phone 7 and Symbian (Series 60) phones, were expected to be supported in 2010. A free software implementation named Moonlight, developed by Novell in cooperation with Microsoft, is available to bring Silverlight versions 1 and 2 functionality to Linux, FreeBSD and other open source platforms - although some Linux distributions do not include it, citing redistributi...