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Windows 7 Phone Gets Jailbreak Tool

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the happens-to-all-of-us-eventually dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Developers have released a 'jailbreak' tool for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, allowing the handsets to run any application, not just those approved for distribution through Microsoft's Marketplace. Although reminiscent of jailbreak tools for the iPhone, this tool, called ChevronWP7, addresses a feature missing in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. It allows corporations to develop proprietary applications and install them on users' handsets without the need to first place the application on Marketplace, as is currently required by Microsoft."

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  1. Re:Running developed apps directly on the phone? by Microlith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or an N900, then you get a much more standard Linux style OS instead of something wholly proprietary like the BlackBerry OS.