>>>>So far anyway. Had to either repair one of our old mobile 6.1 phones or replace, so we got a pair of the Samsung phones.
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>>>"Not bad" is nowhere near good or great though.... that's it? Not bad?
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>>It's pretty nice overall as long as you aren't going to do anything with Silverlight, since THE DAMN THING CAN'T INSTALL THE SILVERLIGHT PLUG-IN.
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>>I had listened to the Microsoft BS about Silverlight being the greatest thing ever for Windows Phone 7 - that is the reason we decided to go to the Windows phones.
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>>Now that we have them, we find there is no way (that we can find through google, bing, or Microsoft sites anyway) to actually install Silverlight (any version) on the phone since the phone won't accept an EXE file, which is the way silverlight is packaged. Even the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 site install is not allowed on the Windows 7 phone.
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>>Great. Just Great.
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>The phone app market is not one I follow closely but it was only a couple of months ago that Microsoft said Silverlight will be strategic there. Don't give up yet.
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>I can't believe I am saying "Trust Microsoft" ....


MS has said from the beginning of the Windows Phone 7 announcement that it would only support silverlight out of browser for the first version. If you want to install a silverlight app, just run it out of browser. Its a simple switch in a configuration file.