Thursday, September 9, 2010
Microsoft gives reasons for Windows Phone 7’s lack of backward compatibility
At the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft officially disclosed the lack of backward compatibility of its forthcoming smartphone operating system - the Windows Phone 7 Series - with its earlier mobile OS version, Windows Mobile 6. x.
Elaborating the reason why backward compatibility has been given a miss in the Windows Phone 7, Larry Lieberman – Microsoft’s senior product manager for Mobile Developer Experience – told eWEEK on March 15 that the new product was “delivered in an incredibly accelerated timeframe. If we’d had more time and resources, we may have been able to do something in terms of backward compatibility.”
Nonetheless, noting that the consumer-oriented spotlight of Windows Phone 7 will draw both business as well as regular users, Lieberman also added that the new operating system boasts the requisite tools for quickly updating the older applications to suit the new platform.
Saying that Windows Phone 7 Series would provide developers the tools to rebuild Mobile applications in updated form, Lieberman specified: “The development platform gives people a lot of opportunities, and they may be able to recreate a lot of their previous work in an accelerated manner.”
In addition, Lieberman also reiterated the fact that Microsoft will continue to remain committed to its Windows Mobile 6. x mobile operating system, and the to-be-launched devices running that OS.
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