![]() ![]() Why churn through a list of applications when you can just find it in the most logical place: near your photos? Shazam, for instance, is integrated into the Music & Videos hub. For instance, Microsoft showed an image editing application that was part of the Pictures hub, which makes sense when you think about it. ![]() Delightfully funny.Īpplications can either be offered “stand-alone” (i.e., iPhone-style), or, more interestingly, they can be integrated into the existing hubs. As Ars Technica notes, this poses problems for Adobe: Microsoft has no problems with offering Flash on Windows Phone 7 Series, but Adobe will have to put the Flash virtual machine on top of the Silverlight one. Microsoft also confirmed that developers will not have the ability to develop native code – development is limited to Silverlight 4 and XNA. Both XNA and Silverlight 4 are fully hardware accelerated on the phone. The same goes for XNA, but we already showed you that earlier. We’re not talking some cut-down version, but the real deal – exactly the same runtime environment on your phone as you get on your desktop. ![]() The key to Windows Phone 7 Series development is Silverlight 4. Update: A lot more information, including photos and videos, at Engadget. Similarly, it was unclear how third party applications would integrate with the operating system. Windows Phone 7 Series really made major headlines when it was announced a few weeks ago, but despite the big splash, little to nothing was revealed about the developer environment. Finally, we’re getting to the meat of the matter. ![]()
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