Microsoft Silverlight is Going to be Available in Apple iPhone

 Microsoft demonstrated beta version of Silverlight 4 at its developer conference last week.  Basically Silverlight uses server side coding and HTML5 video tag to display Silverlight content in a native H.264/MPEG-2 v8 format, which is recognized by the iPhone’s Quicktime player.

“The promise of Silverlight is that it’s a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works the same on Macs as it does on Windows,” Microsoft platform manager Goldfarb responded.

Platform manager Goldfarb further said that they worked with Apple to create a server-side based solution with IIS Media Services and Microsoft is taking the content and promts the user whether they want to enable it on iphone. If the answer is “yes”, the server is going to make the contect work dynamically withe the same source and same origin. The native content of Silverlight is MPEG-2 Ver 8. The company uses HTML 5 tag for coding purpose.