Microsoft naturally spent the overwhelming majority of its breath chatting up Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 earlier this week, but buried beneath the fanfare was a little morsel for a distinctly different platform. That’s right, Symbian fans, you’ve now got a Silverlight runtime (for a few devices, anyway) some two years after Nokia announced that it’d be coming. Support right now is limited to S60 5th Edition — that is, touch-enabled Symbian devices — with both in-browser and standalone Silverlight apps available for the taking. It’s just a beta right now, so don’t have too much faith in the stability or feature-completeness of this thing — but it’s a start.

Silverlight beta comes to S60 5th Edition originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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