Microsoft demonstrates Windows Phone 7

Phone 7 features a new user interface, heavily influenced by the Zune

By Microsoft Subnet on Wed, 02/17/10 - 3:53pm.

My collegue John Cox has an interesting take on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7 announcements. He notes that the technical details were sparse, and the official Web site doesn't add much. Microsoft didn't reveal what changes, if any, it had made to the operating system kernel, which in the past has been based on Windows CE.

The company says the Windows Mobile 7 Web browser is "much more advanced" than any previous offering, but didn't say from which version of desktop Internet Explorer it borrows the core components. Microsoft says a new set of software development tools and resources, and presumably a software development kit, will be forthcoming but put off details until the company's MIX10 Web developer conference next month in Las Vegas.

However, John has done some sleuthing and reported what details that could be gleaned from the demo and posted a video about it.

As I said in 2008, I still think a Zune phone is less exciting and creative than an XBox phone would have been (such as the concept XBox phone created by T3, pictured above). But Windows Mobile 7 seems like it is trying to walk the line between consumers (iPhone) and business users (BlackBerry). I suppose giving your business users access to their video games on their mobile phones won't win the hearts of the enterprise.

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