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Windows Phone 7 beta is out
PERENNIAL MOBILE LOSER Microsoft has released a Windows Phone 7 development tools Beta, which might mean that it is nearly ready to be foisted on the great unwashed.
In a statement the Vole said that the Beta release represents the near final version of the tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7.
A spokesperson said that the Windows Phone Developer Tool CTP has been widely embraced by the community, because they do a lot of that hugging stuff in Silicon Valley.
But now that the hugging is over it is time to "get serious" according to the Vole and build apps and games for Windows Phone 7 that consumers will be looking for starting this upcoming holiday season.
The beta has a few interesting things. The first is Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone. Blend is now integrated completely into the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta.
There is the Developer Registration Utility, which allows you to unlock your Windows Phone 7 device for development purposes. There is an XAP Deployment Tool in case you ever want to stick an XAP file into an unlocked device.
"Many namespaces that were previously distributed over several different DLLs have now been consolidated into one. In addition, there have been realignments and changes in several other namespaces as well. Push Notifications, Accelerometer and App Bar APIs have all been updated," the Vole said.
Still to come are more controls for the devices. Stuff like Panorama and Pivot didn't make the beta release.
Microsoft's Paul Bryan burbles enthusiasically about the beta in the Windows Steam Blog, if you like that sort of thing. µ
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One look at the SDK is all you need to tell you Windows Phone 7 is doomed. No programmatic access to Contacts except for email address and phone number. No access to any events on the phone. No background tasks. No native code. Non-standard browser.
This phone will fail within weeks of release, just like the Kin. All the Windows Mobile developers who programmed in C/C++ have moved on to Android or iPhone. The only people Microsoft can attract to this phone are web developers.
Some interesting applications will be built, but not many. Skype abandoned this phone and most ISVs are ignoring it.
Waste of time.
Windows Mobile 7 can do something the iPhone hasnt been able to do since its release. Thats make a phone call. The iPhone is nothing more than an iPod with a horrible bill from AT&T claiming it has a phone function.
Microsoft is offering cash to developers who port iPod apps/games to the Mobile 7 device. Everyone likes cash more than they like being exclusive to Steve Jobs.
I just got my Developer tools for this today hand delivered by Microsoft.
Microsoft is getting Mobile 7 right.
Sure the iPhone with do some things better and the Droid will have its niche but Mobile 7 has the X-Box Community behind it, its hotmail user base, its exchange and sharepoint user base and nothing does Microsoft office better in portable form than a Windows Mobile device.
I love how people judge a product they have never seen. Arent you the same people who said Droid will never overtake the iPhone? What happened?
Maybe the Kin users can all now line up to buy a cleverly-named "Win 7" phone- phone? After all, Microsoft needs their money more than they do. Or I guess they could instead buy Android, WebOS, or Meego phones and not take the risk.
@ Darren T.:
"Cockney" sounds a lot better-informed and more civil than you do, so (combined with the failure of the Kin-Zune phone) I am inclined to believe that buying a "Win 7" phone-phone would not be a good investment.
Keep up the fortune telling...or perhaps not, i am fairly sure that we have now passed the Mid 2010 point and the devices that are there to be released have yet to do so....because its not even out yet, you have no idea what its going to be really like.
personally i doubt it will be any good but your talking horse crap whilst its still up the horses arse!
I feel sorry for the few poor sods who are making applications for Windows Phone 7.
They'll find out the hard way, when Windows Phone 7 gets cancelled in mid-2010.
Blimey, Windows Phone 7 has no compelling features. It lacks the functionality of Android and iPhone. Some functions like the compass and VoIP will be broken on release. You're stuck with I.E. as your only browser (no WebKit, No Skyfire, No Opera, No Firefox).
It's more closed than even iPhone, and Microsoft is trying to stop jailbraking by locking Windows Phone 7 to the hardware using DRM.
Windows Phone 7 is going to fail, just like Kin. In fact, the same department in Microsoft is responsible for marketing both failures.
One wonders whether anything actually occurs in the minds of "executives", because what comes out could easily be assembled by a program using a database of sentence structures and buzzwords. -- There's not even a screenshot of this new marvel.
However, it's interesting to note that the M$ "blog" hasn't been scrubbed of links to KIN (sic) news.