Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was launched in Europe, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, Mexico, and the EPAL region in the second half of 2010, and Asia in early 2011. With Windows Phone, Microsoft offers a new user interface with its design language named Metro, integrates the operating system with third party and other Microsoft services, and controls the hardware it runs on.
Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename “Photon”, but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to…

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Today I was searching for good resources for Windows Phone 7 application development and I came across a cool set of libraries in Codeplex.com. What is Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7? The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone…
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Released: Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Update & Other Updates

There are few updates from Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Update, Windows Azure, & Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers – RTM Refresh. Check it out. Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update January 2011 Update to…
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