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Windows Phone 7 To Arrive In October

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25/06/2010

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Dynagen

Yesterday I watched a video from Microsoft Advertising and new I should have paid more attention to it rather than being distracted by all the excitement around the beta of Windows Live Essentials. As it turns out that video actually indicates Microsoft are planning to release Windows Phone 7 in October of this year.

Microsoft are showing advertisers how the new mobile OS can be utilised by them in three different ways, in apps, on the Live Tiles or through notifications, toasts. I am very interested to see how advertisers view the new OS.

Obviously until Microsoft actually confirms the launch date for Windows Phone 7 it could change but this fits well with what I have heard and is a more precise date than “holidays 2010”; we might *only* have 5 months to wait!

Windows Live Tags: Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7

http://www.cespage.com/silverlight RoguePlanetoid

Earlier is certainly better – with some dissapointment with the iPhone 4 launch, there is going to be a lot of people wanting something different, Windows Phone 7 offers that and could benefit from this, and being in October means that it won’t clash with Kinect launch for the Xbox 360. Hopefully the release date will be confirmed, all the news thus far has stated that the platform is on schedule, so a few more months is not unlikely for launch.
majg

Did anyone notice the mention of KIN-like functionality at the end? Might be a worthy post.
http://mymicrosoftlife.com Gilly

@Majg I was thinking of writing about that feature :P
http://mymicrosoftlife.com/2010/06/25/intrigued-about-behind-the-scenes-syncing-on-windows-phone-7/ Intrigued About Behind The Scenes Syncing On Windows Phone 7 « My Microsoft Life

[...] and it was pointed out to me, that in the latest video of Windows Phone 7 doing the rounds where Microsoft mention an October release of the mobile OS there is a piece of behind the scenes syncing going on on Windows Phone 7. At the end of the [...]

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