Filed under: Developer, Microsoft, Mobile
Since its announcement in February, Microsoft has obviously been ploughing a lot of resources into its next-generation mobile operating system. With consumers (and developers!) are jumping from the ailing Windows Mobile platform in record numbers, Windows Phone 7 can't come soon enough. Microsoft, to put it frankly, needs an absolute miracle or the finest mobile operating system ever to turn around its mobile phone operations.
Will Windows Phone 7 be enough? I think it will stem the tide, but whether it will be enough to gain on Apple, RIM and Nokia, I don't know. The feature list certainly is impressive. If I was a developer, I'd be torn between the extant tried-and-tested smartphone platforms, and the juicy development tools available for Windows Phone 7. Nothing comes close to Expression Blend or Silverlight when it comes to quick, feature-rich-and-beautiful application development.
You can learn more about the Developer Tools beta release on the Windows Phone blog. Also, if you're a developer -- or interested in becoming a developer! -- Microsoft is offering four free live sessions on Windows Phone 7, Silverlight and XNA. The first is on July 20th -- go sign up!
Update: istartedsomething has a cool video walkthrough of the new Windows Phone 7 emulator; it's worth a watch!
Windows Phone Developer Tools beta released; lots of updates, free classes for developers and more originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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