UPDATED · News · 3 Oct 2009 · MTW Editorial Team
During his Windows Mobile Dev Camp session in san Fransisco, WinMo team member Mel Sempat, confirmred what I talked about a little while ago , let me quote myself :
I can tell you that Microsoft is betting heavily on Silverlight for mobile. SL 3 support is going to be the key here (there’s no need to support WPF given that SL 3 does nearly everything WPF does).
What is known is that WM7’s UI is Vector based to be totally resolution independent. This will enable developers to develop once for all phones (using MS’s latest release of Expression tools). As seen here Microsoft designers have been working on Silverlight for WM7. This will also enable Microsoft to push even harder the Widgets development (introduced in 6.5) now that Silverlight support out-of-the-browser applications.
Here’s the full Session:
Sarting at 23mins Mel states that they are working on Vector Graphics support in WM7 and that SilverLight support is also in there (and not WPF).
Like the zunehd, it [Windows Mobile 7] will surprise the market with really awesome stuff, when its ready
When it’s ready….
Source: Mel on Twitter
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