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Breaking: Windows Phone 7 developer and Internet Explorer 9 details emerge at Microsoft MIX10
Microsoft's three-day conference for web designers and developers -- MIX -- has just begun in Las Vegas. After a rather odd yo-yo-based introductory fanfare, details about Microsoft's upcoming products have already started to emerge. First, Windows Phone 7 Series will not feature Internet Explorer 9 as its browser -- rather, it will be something 'in between IE7 and IE8'.
The first day of MIX will focus on WP7 development, with Internet Explorer 9 receiving the focus tomorrow. This is what we know so far about Windows Phone 7:
The first day of MIX will focus on WP7 development, with Internet Explorer 9 receiving the focus tomorrow. This is what we know so far about Windows Phone 7:
- Visual Studio Express 2010 Express for the Windows Phone -- presumably with full XNA/Silverlight support
- Lots of developers are working on apps for Windows Phone -- Seesmic, Pandora, Citrix (yay!)
- XNA Games studio 4.0 -- updated specifically for Windows Phone and Silverlight development
- Multi-touch -- WP7 will fully support multi-touch devices
- Microsoft services -- location service and notification service, the latter will push updates to the phone. The former has already been discussed already (geosense?)
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Subscribe to commentsTechBloggerMar 16th 2010 10:38AM
If Microsoft can make all these advances with IE, why not allow for plugins in IE9, finally? Its not like they are blind to the real world as it relates to their core business, so why do they seem to be tone deaf when it comes to net security? Seriously, how does MS call itself the "Internet explorer" while exposing users to confront so many hateful scripts on the web?