Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 for Mobile will be a rework of the operating system to make it more relevant to how smartphones are used today. Touch and multi-touch will quite expectedly be a big part of the OS.
Windows Mobile is known to not have a rather dated touch interface based around using a stylus. While the new Windows Mobile 6.5 does move to rectify this a bit, it is clear that newer platforms designed around the new paradigms of interactivity are much at advantage here. Windows for Mobile phones has been available much longer than iPhone OS, yet the latter has garnered more applications in its short existence than Windows has in thrice as long lifetime.
Windows Mobile 7 will not only feature a completely new interface, the internals will also be sufficiently revamped to break all compatibility with existing Windows mobile applications. The new Windows Mobile 7 platform will support applications developed using the .NET framework, using Silverlight as the runtime for applications. For those building games for mobiles which feature 3D or 2D content, Microsoft's XNA platform can also be used.
While this means that significantly lesser work will be required in porting mobile application and games to the desktop and XBox, it also means that currently developed application will need significant reworking to work on the new phones. While backwards compatibility has been sacrificed, Microsoft has instead promoted the compatibility of applications developed for the mobile platforms with desktops and the Xbox console. So think of Windows Mobile 7 as a entirely new OS if you will.
News Source:- http://www.thinkdigit.com
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