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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Is it really Windows? by Eponymous+Coward · 2010-09-17 04:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is this really Windows? From what I had read earlier, the OS seemed to have more in common with the Zune OS.
So, what is the heritage of this OS? Is it an entirely new beast, or a descendant of WinCE, Win32, or ZuneOS?