To be specific, Mr. Ballmer specified that Windows Phone 7 will be out “in months” when he was talking about the upcoming Microsoft mobile platform at the Worldwide Partner Conference. The current CEO of Microsoft discussed several other important points and views about the OS at that event as well.
Steve Ballmer took the stage at the Mobile World Congress last February to give the world a first glimpse at the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Sure, the close system and the restrictions fell quite reminiscent of Apple’s iOS rules, but the way that the is operated, the way apps are integrated and the way the functions are all inter-connected makes WP7 a mobile platform really worth looking forward to.
Originally, Ballmer stated that the OS would be ready by the end of the year, specifically, by the holiday season. But is seems that in the past few months since the unveiling of the OS to the public, the Microsoft mobile development team has been charged up with a new spirit that has driven them to finish a lot earlier than expected.
The launch date was slowly moved from holidays to October, and just recently, rumors are now pointing out the possibility that the OS might be launching as early as September.
Windows Phone 7 will be integrating plenty of new features from Microsoft such as Bing Search –which is heavily competing with Google’s search engine, the Zune media interface, the Microsoft Xbox Live Games service, a new MSN player; support for Silverlight and according to reports, the first updates will include a Flash player and HTML5 compatibility.
Various phone manufacturers have confirmed that they will have devices ready when Windows Phone 7 launches. LG’s Panther is a type two chassis (which comes with a slide out QWERTY keyboard) and HTC has the Mondrian (HTC Gold) and the HTC Mozart.
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