In a recently held Professional Developer’s Conference, Microsoft displayed the first developer beta version for Silverlight 4, which also involves support for Google Chrome browser too. However, this advance for Microsoft is quite interesting as well support from the Apple, that readily agreed for this and is quite surprising from the Apple’s point of view that he has adopted for Adobe Flash that has a lot on projects for all smart phones except, iPhone.

As from the functionality context, Silver light same like as Adobe Flash and Adobe Air (Adobe AIR) can use same content on a number of platforms without having any exact   platform specific version. As silverlight is connected with streaming video, it also can run full web applications. And it is the Microsoft that is bringing the Silverlight video streaming to the iPhone. The technical classification of Silverlight native content type is MPEG-2 v8 that was in start was a server side solution with IIS Media Services.  So a content being uploaded on is being optimized for smooth streaming can easily be enabled on the iPhone.  With the use of HTML video tag, Silverlight communicates a QuickTime request to the IIS server, which further decodes the MPEG-2 v8 file dynamically and streams it to the iPhone.   This is quite popular to what YouTube presently works with iPhone.  This is a huge leap for Microsoft and Silverlight content developers in reference to providing content to mobile phone users.