Windows Phone 7 Hits Technical Preview Milestone

suraj.sun writes "Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has today reached its biggest milestone yet, with a technical preview announced placing the OS on the 'home stretch' to launch. 'We are certainly not done yet — but the craftsmen (and women) of our team have signed off that our software is now ready for the hands-on everyday use of a broad set of consumers around the world — and we're looking forward to their feedback in the coming weeks, so that we can finish the best Windows Phone release ever together,' Terry Myerson, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Engineering, wrote tonight." There's coverage around the net including CNet, NeoWin and Engadget.

Comments

Ah, let's just call it done

[Saint Stephen]

It's based on creaky old CE, it supports no features, and it has a silverlight-y shell with a couple of new spins on the same old workflow. Let's ship it!

Facebook will write an app for it and somebody will probably buy it.

Maybe this time it will sync with 64-bit Office. The current ActiveSync says "aw, just install 32-bit Office, you don't need 64-bit anyway!" (ITunes has no problems synching with 64-bit office, btw.)

What else was easy

[SuperKendall]

And to develop apps in WinMo7 is ridiculously easy. I think that's what will help the platform move along.

Developing for PalmOS was easy. And the iPhone at the start, with web apps...

For some reason users seem dissatisfied with a limited programming model that is easier on the developer but results in less featureful applications.

What an dumb statement

[SuperKendall]

And that is the exact problem. US people, especially religious ones think there's some problem with nudity.

Religious people have a higher birthrate than anyone so I'd rethink the idea they have a problem with nudity alone.

There is also a huge difference between nudity and sex. You can for example find classic works on art in various iPhone applications.

Obviously Microsoft and Apple are not religious companies so religion doesn't enter into to. It's just that they do not care to be associated with sexual products, and why should they not be free to do so if they find it too base or whatever other reason comes to them?

Re:My question is...

[arkane1234]

Pushing it to the netbooks is a bit of a stretch,

Funny, last I booted I swore my netbook was a computer and not a phone.
Granted, it's not a Spore-capable system, but it's still a desktop just like most were when XP came out.
Unless you're talking about screen real estate, which then you're just getting dick-size into the picture. Especially since if you're desk based temporarily, you can VGA cable it to a monitor.