Windows Phone 7 Won’t Support Flash At Launch
Adobe issued an statement earlier today stating that the Flash plugin, which has been available for the current version of Windows Mobile (6.5.3) , won’t be available at launch for the new Windows Phone 7 OS. This actually allows us to speculate on a couple of things:
1. According to rumors, Microsoft might be including Silverlight support out of the box with Windows Phone 7. Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s flash, and this might have dampened Adobe’s relationship with Microsoft, even if their press statement says otherwise.
2. Windows Mobile 6.5 had Flash built-in. If Windows Phone 7 was using the same kernel and code base as 6.5, porting flash over would have been an easy copy and paste job. This gives us hope that Windows Phone 7 will be the Game Changer Microsoft have been promising us.
Check our site tomorrow at around 9am Eastern for extensive coverage of Microsoft’s press event at Mobile World Congress.
