Monthly Archives: May 2010

Windows Phone and multitasking

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

Catching up this morning as you can see. :) Here’s a good blog post about how Windows Phone handles multitasking. Contrary to the naysayers, it’s pretty sophisticated and entirely in keeping with Microsoft’s goal to hit the high points with … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight programmers

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

Jesse Liberty is publishing a mini-series on the web about Windows Phone 7 programming for Silverlight programmers. The first in the series is now available. This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 Programming for … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Answers for Windows Phone

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

Microsoft has posted a new community-based support web site called Windows Phone Answers that might be of interest down the road. Right now, of course, it’s focused on Windows Mobile for the most part. There are sections like Getting Started, … Continue reading →

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A Windows Phone update

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

As you know, I’ve been in Redmond for the past week, and have spent a lot of time with a Windows Phone device. I can’t write about a lot of that experience yet, but I did interview Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel … Continue reading →

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What I’m doing in Redmond

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

I’ve been writing about Microsoft products since 1994 or so, I guess, and the first time I visited the Microsoft campus was in 1996, when I learned about the first version of Visual Studio. (Which was code named Boston, by … Continue reading →

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At the Microsoft campus

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

I’ve gotten a number of emails from people who are curious about my schedule this week in Redmond. I’ve agreed to an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) with Microsoft, so I won’t be able to discuss what I’m learning about Windows Phone … Continue reading →

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Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

Channel 9 posts a nice video about the Windows Phone emulator in the (free) Windows Phone developer tools. While Silverlight and XNA Framework enable developers to create new and innovative applications and games for the Windows Phone (WP), these are … Continue reading →

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Updated Bing app for Windows Phone

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

Bing for Windows Mobile finally gets the a-list treatment and now appears to look and work like the awesome iPhone app. The Bing Community blog has the details: We’re happy to announce two new features to the Bing app for … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone 7: near-final screenshots

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

As promised, I’ve posted a ton of screenshots from this week’s leaked “RC1 escrow” build of Windows Phone 7 to the SuperSite for Windows. The happy surprise is that I was able to connect to the document repository on my … Continue reading →

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Get the Windows Phone 7 RC1 escrow build in emulation

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Paul Thurrott

A new build of Windows Phone 7 has leaked and this one is apparently the "RC1 escrow" build (as in "release candidate 1 escrow"), which means that if it passes certain quality criteria it will be declared the actual release … Continue reading →

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