Microsoft Releases Final Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 17, 2010 @03:35AM from the wrapping-things-up dept.

cgriffin21 writes "Microsoft on Thursday released the final Windows Phone 7 developer tools to manufacturing, giving coders a couple of weeks' lead time to get their apps ready for the launch of the Windows Phone Marketplace in early October. Microsoft released the Windows Phone 7 OS to manufacturing on Sept. 1, and its OEM partners are in the process of testing it on handsets. The Windows Phone 7 developer tools are the final piece of the puzzle for Microsoft, which is now ready to march back into a mobile market where it has fallen alarmingly behind the leaders." In related news, CNET reports that Windows Phone 7 will only be available for GSM networks at launch, with a CDMA version planned for the first half of next year. This rules out Sprint and Verizon for launch.

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Let's get ready for the Microsoft bundle by bogaboga · 2010-09-17 04:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

...Or should I have called it the Microsoft Pack? Yes, I can see this bundle allowing Windows Phone users to use their gadgets to work with MS Office documents in ways that no current platform Android or iOS can.
Remember the old Netscape vs Internet Explorer days? It's gonna be 'those times' played all over again. Folks, the future looks and promises to be interesting.