With Adobe Flash still missing in action on Apple's iPhone, alternative technologies could be considered to replace it. One of them is Microsoft's Silverlight, which allows web applications to be developed with animations, vector graphics, as well as multimedia playback, exactly what the iPhone needs to unleash fully featured rich Internet applications. Unfortunately, there's one problem...
Speaking at the Mix 08 conference in Las Vegas, Steve Ballmer didn't show his optimism reagarding the arrival of Microsoft Silverlight on Apple's iPhone. The interesting part is that Microsoft's CEO didn't completely eliminate this possibility. In my opinion, even if he knows Microsoft won't ever support such a thing like Silverlight on the iPhone, he won't say that in public. Would you do such a thing, in his place?
In fact, Ballmer said Microsoft is considering putting Silverlight "everwhere", and having it on the iPhone would be "interesting". He also added there have been talks with Steve Jobs about this, so hope is not lost. Since Microsoft is not really the big, bad and ugly ogre of the IT industry, and having Silverlight on the iPhone would benefit everyone, let's hope this interesting possibility will be reality some day, not so far from this moment...
