subject: Windows Phone7 Development: Feel Your PC At Your Mobile Phone [print this page] Windows Phone7 Development: Feel Your PC At Your Mobile Phone
Do you know more than 90% of computer systems in the world are using Windows as operating system? It's so popular among the computer literate generation that it's almost taken as synonymous to the computer itself. After desktops and laptops, this is the era of smart phones, the hand-held electronic gadgets integrating internet, communication and computing together. In April '2000, Microsoft introduced the mobile version of the Windows operating system, namely, Windows Mobile. This mobile OS had ushered a new era of applications i.e. Windows Mobile application development. This area was later captured by giants like the apple iPhone, Google's android and Blackberry.
Now after the release of the dedicated mobile version Windows Phone7, Windows has again fetched the attention of smart phone users. It's interesting to mention that despite of the recent release in October '2010, the new technology world has now witnessed the high paced increase in popularity of Windows 7 phone development, that too in this short duration.
Since most of the PC users are habitual of Windows environment in wide variety for areas, so the demand for their mobile applications is also versatile. Owing to this fact, windows 7 has not only brought new challenges before the Windows Phone 7 developers in making satisfactory applications, but also it has created new opportunities for the faster expansion of the universe of mobile phone applications. Having a feel of your own PC environment at your handheld mobile is indeed an exciting fact. This experience is something each one among us wants to have, for most of the time. Although, many up-gradations are yet to be made in order to ensure all the PC like functionality on the mobile phones, such as cut-copy-paste, the new operating system Windows Phone7 has been developed in such a way that these aspirations may not die as a wishful thinking.
Future of Windows phone7 is extremely bright. Although, it may be an overenthusiastic visualization if we say that smart phones are going to replace the PCs, yet it's likely to happen at least to some extent. So if you want to develop applications for your mobile, which you have been using on your PC till now, find some good companies which have expertise in this new mobile OS.
