Microsoft Australia's Rog42

An amazing week for Mobility

Well, when they said the announcements at Mix08 would blow us away, they weren't wrong....

I'm excited about all of the mobility announcements. It's clear that the Internet, Social Networking, and Gen "C" is combining and extending to the most portable platform we have available today.

A summary of the mobile announcements made this week:

• Silverlight 2.0 with mobile extensions. Just think of Rich Internet Applications reaching right into your pocket.
• Silverlight on Nokia mobile phones. (See my Previous Post) Beyond being able to develop applications for the desktop (WPF), web (WPFe - Silverlight), Mobile devices (SL2.0), but for the most popular mobile device platform on the planet. All in the same IDE!
• Exchange Active Synch on the Apple iPhone!!! Excuse me? Calendaring, Tasks, Email, Global Address List, all available on the iPhone!! (Thanks to my great buddy Johann Kruse for this news)

So not only is Web 2.0 extending to our pockets, but applications and devices are interoperable now like never before.

Now if Apple can put 3G and a GPS onto the iPhone as well as EAS, a decent keyboard, and some battery life, I might even be tempted to buy one...

R42