Microsoft’s License of Adobe Flash Lite For Mobile Devices is Good for Consumers Says Dan Rayburn

Yesterday morning, Adobe (ADBE) announced that Microsoft (MSFT) had licensed Adobe’s Flash Lite software so that Flash based content will be able to be viewed within Internet Explorer on future versions of Microsoft Windows mobile phones.

Now, Over Half A Billion Hand Held Devices Has Flash Lite, Adobe’s Award-Winning Flash Player Runtime Specifically Designed For Mobile Devices

Thought few years ago that Adobe reaching 20 million units shipped would be a milestone and catching up one billion units in numbers is great to reach, but reaching half of its size really does matter. Flash Lite, Adobe’s award-winning Flash Player runtime specifically designed for mobile devices, has seen over 150 percent growth over the last year and is now delivered on mobile devices from all major handset manufacturers worldwide. including Nokia, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and many others.

There is also an interesting post article at ZDNet called The motives in a nutshell.