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Windows Phone 7 RTMs

As of today, operating system for Windows Phone 7 is complete, and released to manufacturing.  Terry Myerson made the announcement today in a blog post:

Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re

Windows Phone Marketplace App Categories

Microsoft has finalized the list of categories of apps it will offer on its Windows Phone Marketplace. App categories organize applications so that users can more easily find what they are looking for.

For Windows Phone 7, there will be …

Windows Phone 7 available in Canada same time as US: WMPowerUser.com

wmpoweruserlogoWMPowerUser is doing a great job of covering the latest Windows Phone 7 news (we’ve got them in our Windows Phone Blogs We Like section, and hey they even have their own WP7 app!), and today they have some …

Final release of Windows Phone Developer Tools on September 16

In our article about Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training we already mentioned that there won’t be any localized training provided until the final release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. At that time we didn’t have a release date …

Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training

Of course the big news this week was the WL 2011 beta refresh, which, unfortunately, I didn’t get to install until yesterday because of hardware problems (had to install new GPU). But there was more news. News we overlooked …

Have a WP7 App idea? Want to code an App?–Hook up with Mobile App Match

When Windows Phone 7 debuts this holiday season, it’s going to need a well stocked Marketplace.  Microsoft is well aware of that, and has been scrambling to stock the shelves in anticipation of those holiday users looking to fill their …

No official list of Windows Phone 7 device makers

We reported last Friday that there would be 5 hardware partners with Windows Phone 7 handsets ready at launch. Turns out later that day Microsoft “turned back” on what was said.

"Microsoft has not made an official announcement on …

Speech recognition in Windows Phone 7

Microsoft acquired TellMe back in March 2007, and the speech recognition features that came with it have been finding their way into a number of Microsoft products, from Windows 7 to the Bing for Mobile app, and soon, of …

5 Hardware partners have Windows Phone 7 handsets available at launch

Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for Microsoft, told Pocket-lint that Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung will have Windows Phone 7 handsets available at the launch later this year.

That’s (at least) five launch handsets, some of which, Microsoft has …

Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Calendar: What you can and can’t do

calendarsSo many developers have gotten their hands on one of the Windows Phone 7s given out by Microsoft, and our friend Paul Thurrott is one of them. While Thurrott is writing his new book on WP7, he’s been updating his