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Nokia’s Windows Phone gamble

By tim, on October 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

At Nokia World in London on Wednesday, CEO Stephen Elop presented the new Lumia range of Windows Phones. You can watch the keynote here – I was impressed by Elop’s clarity and conviction, and also by VP Blanca Juti who talked about the Asha range of nearly-smartphone feature phones.

The demonstration of the Windows

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The Adobe Flash and Windows Phone 7 mystery

By tim, on September 27th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended Microsoft’s Mix event in March 2010, where Microsoft gave us the first detailed preview of Windows Phone 7 from the developer perspective. At that time, Microsoft made it clear that the Adobe Flash plug-in would not be supported in the first release, but implied that it would follow.

Did Microsoft ever announce

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PhoneGap comes to Windows Phone

By tim, on September 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Nitobi has announced PhoneGap for Windows Phone 7, nicely timed just before the Microsoft BUILD conference next week.

PhoneGap is a cross-platform mobile development tool that uses the HTML and JavaScript engine on the phone as its runtime, supplemented by extensions which give access to other device features:

After unpackaging the contents of the www

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Windows Phone 7 apps, stats and future

By tim, on September 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Justin Angel, a former Microsoft employee who worked on Silverlight, has posted his analysis of the 24,505 apps he found in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, exploiting a loophole that lets you get the download links. A few highlights:

97% of the apps are not obfuscated, meaning that it is trivial (with easily available tools)

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Mobile development research shows complex picture

By tim, on June 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Vision Mobile has published its report on mobile development. It is a detailed report and worth reading, though I would be wary about taking it too seriously since some of the results are puzzling. This is what the report is based on:

We spent the last few months quizzing developers and industry executives about the

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A pivotal moment for Microsoft as it attempts to escape its Windows legacy

By tim, on June 2nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Last year I wrote a piece for The Register on 25 years of Windows. I even ran up Windows 1.0 in a DOS box to have a look.

The surprising thing about Windows is not how much has changed in 25 years, but how little. The WIMP model (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) has stayed

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Infragistics: upbeat on Windows Phone but also building for Apple iOS, Google Android

By tim, on May 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO and co-founder of Infragistics, at TechEd in Atlanta earlier this week. Infragistics makes components, mainly for Windows but now beginning to support non-Windows clients. There is a set of jQuery controls in preparation, and “Our roadmaps are also going to deliver native on Android and iPhone,” Guida told me.

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Windows Phone at Mix 2011: what Microsoft said and did not say

By tim, on April 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore (phone VP) and Scott Guthrie (developer VP) took the stage at the Mix 2011 conference in Las Vegas to tell us what is new with Windows Phone.

The opening part of the keynote was significant. Belfiore spent some time talking about the “update situation”.

This is all to do

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Microsoft’s stumbling Windows Phone 7 launch – from a fan

By tim, on March 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Danny Tuppeny’s post on Why I’m Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User and a Developer is worth a read. He describes his experience as a Microsoft-platform developer who is a natural enthusiast for Windows Phone, except that he has been unimpressed with how its launch has been handled.

The first

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Qualcomm: optimising for Windows Phone took years not months

By tim, on February 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I had a chat with Qualcomm’s Raj Talluri here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Of course I asked about the Nokia-Microsoft deal and the implications for Qualcomm. Currently Microsoft specify Qualcomm’s Snapdragon as the required chipset for Windows Phone 7 devices: good for Qualcomm, not so good for Microsoft since it means competing system-on-a-chip

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