Microsoft Introduces Windows Phone 7, Microsoft New Phone 2010.

Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to their Windows Mobile platform. It is due to launch in Europe and Asia on October 21, 2010, and in the US on November 8th, 2010. Microsoft’s goal is to create a compelling user experience by redesigning the user interface, integrating the operating system with other services, and strictly controlling the hardware it runs on. Microsoft officially unveiled Windows Phone 7 during Mobile World Congress 2010 (February 15) in Barcelona and revealed additional details at
MIX 2010 (March 15). Windows Phone 7 was released to manufacturing on September 1, 2010, and the final SDK was made available on September 16, 2010.

History

Operating system development
Work towards a major Windows Mobile update may have began as early as 2004 under the codename “Photon”. Due to delays, the project was cancelled and the Windows Mobile group reorganized in 2008. Microsoft then completely started over to create a new mobile operating system, which became known as Windows Phone starting in 2009. The product was initially intended to be released during 2009, but several delays prompted Microsoft to develop Windows Mobile 6.5 as an interim release.
Because of the change in direction, Windows Phone 7 was developed in an accelerated timeframe. Existing Windows Mobile applications do not run on Windows Phone 7. Larry Lieberman, senior product manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Developer Experience, told eWeek: “If we’d had more time and resources, we may have been able to do something in terms of backward compatibility.” He stated that Microsoft was attempting to look at the mobile phone market in a new way, with the end user in mind as well as the enterprise network. Terry Myerson, corporate VP of Windows Phone engineering had this to say about backwards compatibility: “With the move to capacitive touch screens, away from the stylus, and the moves to some of the hardware choices we made for the Windows Phone 7 experience, we had to break application compatibility with Windows Mobile 6.5.”

It’s been a long road, hasn’t it? Well, in some respects, it hasn’t — in fact, it’s only been about two years since development of Windows Phone 7 as we know it today kicked off — but when you consider that this product will be replacing Windows Mobile 6.5, that puts things in proper perspective. In fact, even the very latest maintenance releases of good ol’ WinMo are based on the same rickety underpinnings as version 5.0 was way back in 2005, at a time when WVGA smartphone displays were science fiction, 4G networks were a good two Gs beyond the average American’s comprehension, and Engadget looked like this. Nowadays, it’s a very different game; eight year-olds have access to mobile email, your phone understands German, and “Yelp” is a verb (okay, actually Yelp is a verb). World biggest technology giant, Microsoft, has stated that it will be launching its latest Windows Phone 7, and this latest smartphone OS will be having the capability of tethering. Microsoft has been in the mobile OS market since many years and this time they have launched an ultimate OS that can prove to be competitive against the other smartphone OS’s.