Microsoft have announced that after the Windows Phone 7 OS has been used daily by more than 1,000 people in Microsoft and over 10,000 developers that the technical preview is now out there to the broader community. From yesterday they say that thousands of prototype phones from Asus, LG and Samsung are making their way into the hands of developers over the next few weeks.
The whole mobile OS has moved on massively since Microsoft first released Pocket PC and this early preview is getting some pretty mixed reviews.
The BoyGenius Report states that "There is no killer application on Windows Phone 7, and we can’t see an overwhelming reason to use one instead of an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android handset. Whether Microsoft’s OS updates to the platform will be enough to change our minds in the future is up to them, but for now, they’ve created a decent mobile operating system from scratch, but it unfortunately still has that Microsoft feel. And that’s not the best thing sometimes."
Infoworld is alot more brutal stating "Windows Phone 7: Don't bother with this disaster Microsoft's demos of its great mobile hope shows Windows Phone 7 to be only a tepid knockoff of a 2007-era iPhone"
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0 Replies - Read more/Discuss »Gizmodo are hearing that Microsoft are killing off the Kin project, which is hardly surprising given the poor uptake and the bad reviews that the device received. I actually think this is good news, with Kin and Windows Phone 7, as well as the recently announced Windows Phone Enterprise edition, Microsoft was making their mobile phone OS story confusing and fragmented. By moving the Kin team into the Windows Phone team, hopefully can only be goodness.
Microsoft's official statement is We have made the decision to focus on our Windows Phone 7 launch and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones
source: gizmodo.com
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0 Replies - Read more/Discuss »Well what a surprise, with lots of hype around the iPhone v4 launch today, Microsoft choose to release a prototype Samsung phone to PCMag, who report back that it is "fast and smooth, with all the features we've come to expect from Windows Phone 7: big, bold text, Xbox Live, Zune, Bing and such"
With it still being six months away from launch, and the competition from Android and Apple iPhone heating up it will be very interesting to see how Microsoft and the hardware companies respond.
0 Replies - Read more/Discuss »Microsoft have clarified some points around wether they would have a consumer and enterprise version of their Windows Phone 7 OS with the news that they will release a new mobile OS for embedded and enterprise devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5, to be followed by an enterprise-focused version of Windows Phone 7 in 2011. This was announced by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer by video at the launch of a new Motorola enterprise smartphone on Thursday.
The ability to work well with Microsoft's enterprise Exchange for email, calendar and contracts has always been a strength in my view, and where Windows Mobile still has an advantage over the iPhone. As an example, you cannot reply all to an Exchange calendar request something that I have been able to do even with Windows Mobile 6.
"In the next six months we will release a new embedded OS called Windows Embedded Handheld, based on Windows Mobile 6.5 technologies ... [and] in the second half of 2011, we will release a version of Windows Embedded Handheld based on Windows Phone 7 technology," Ballmer said on the video.
Microsoft will spend the intervening time "working on a clear path for enterprises to migrate their line-of-business applications to our new application platform" for Windows Phone 7, Ballmer said.
full details here.
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