http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft bites bullet, licenses Adobe's Flash Lite for Windows Mobile http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Poor show. ]]>Mar 17th 2008 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Thomas]]>Mar 17th 2008 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Are you a Microsoft employee? Because seriously, I read Thomas' writeup and I really didn't see a problem. I think only a Microsoft employee would be offended by it. All he did was mention that there are 2 superior browsers and that's just stating fact.]]>Mar 17th 2008 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
And calling a product "crap"? What are you in 10th grade?

Hell, even Apple fans can see his whole shtick. ]]>Mar 17th 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
1) Engadget has an obvious Apple-bias (true)
2) PIE is the worst mobile browser around (also true)]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Windows Mobile in general needs an update bigtime ... it's become stale like Palm. It needs a total rewrite ... Vista Mobile ?!?!?!? ... ok ... maybe not.

Technology is getting close to where we could almost run a stripped version of XP on a handheld device. Maybe 4 or 8gb flash with a 640x480 4.5" touchscreen.

Anyways ... fanboy or not ... pocket IE is crap ]]>Mar 17th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
I agree. Adobe doesn't know what efficiency means. All there apps lag in under-performing hardware. What do you think will happen on the phone front?

BTW I got Adobe Reader LE on my Dash with the Windows Mobile 6 update. What are you referring to Engadget?

JAmerican ]]>Mar 17th 2008 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/]]>Mar 17th 2008 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
By the way, here's for hoping that Apple also bites the bullet and gives us some _real_ (albeit far from battery-friendly) internet. I realize more and more that it kinda sucks not to have flash.]]>Mar 17th 2008 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
But he did make a comparison between an existing browser and one that isn't even out to the public yet. I mean how do we know how great that other browser is if we "the public" have not evaluated it yet. After all we "the public" are the last voice on wether something is good or not.

Thats like me saying that the new Audi RS4 will blow away the M3 and its Mercedes competitor. Well the RS4 isn't even out yet. I don't care who test drove the prototype or something close to the finished product, it's not out yet.

In my opinion he is a little biased because of what I mentioned above. That and the fact that I clicked on his name and got to see a couple of negative spins on MS stories.

He even put a negative spin on people receiving free MS Office. !!!
(he tried to say that people gave up their "privacy" and I guess he wanted them to feel embarrased by that) Dude their getting FREE software, they kept their end of the bargain now MS is keeping theirs.]]>Mar 17th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Unless the user changes the settings in PIE so that it will not be redirected to mobile versions of the site (engadget redirects PIE) how can one actually use flash lite?

Typing the direct YouTube.com/watchwhatever=RU(#&)* redirects to m.youtube.com as well.]]>Mar 17th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
"Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 will support Flash 7 content authored for mobile devices only."

Oh wells.

]]>Mar 17th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Thomas]]>Mar 17th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/Mar 17th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Let me guess, .NET is crap too? That microsoft cant get anything right [/sarcasm]]]>Mar 17th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
Face it, MS will HAVE to be more open with Silverlight so that they can compete with an entrenched player like Flash. You can't wedge in a monopoly anymore the way you once could, users and critics are both much more interested in open software and standards. Hell, even Office documents are all XML based now.

So take your "I am a diehard MAC users(sic.)" mentality elsewhere.]]>Mar 18th 2008 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/microsoft-bites-bullet-licenses-adobes-flash-lite-for-windows/
MS hasn't had an original thought in over a decade so stop crying. Look at their desperate attempts to get Yahoo! Why? Because they can't do it themselves. They lost nearly as much as they offered for Yahoo! in terms of their share values falling. Think how many start ups with original ideas could have been fueled with 40+ Billion? Yet MS has no problem dropping it to merely buy out a company who holds second place on the web. That is par for the course for MS. Just Borg it and go.


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