Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft confirms that Windows Phone 7 is based on Windows CE

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Win_mobileOliver Block, one of Windows CE developers, wrote in his diary that participants of the last conference devoted to integrated systems in San Jose asked him the same questions. They were interested if CE was killed by its developers going forward to the ARM-platform, or if developers were using Visual Studio and whether all Windows Embedded products were based on different SKU.

Mr. Block thinks that programmers who specialize in apps development for Windows Mobile and many others ask such questions because:

• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Tools are still integrated in Visual Studio 2005 only, and they disappeared in the 2008 version.

• Visual Studio 2010 does not support the Smart Device development (it was created to motivate the development of native and .NET CF-applications for Windows CE and Windows Mobile / Phone).

• The long waited release of the next version of Windows Embedded CE was postponed for several times.

• It is not clear, what technologies were used in Windows Phone 7.

So Oliver Block has given us the direct answer: Windows CE is not dead. He has said that developers are working on Windows Embedded Compact 7, which soon will be released, and Microsoft will support its for the next 10 years at least.

We believe that Windows Embedded Team is making a lot to add new features and new tools to support all these new functions. Does it look like a dead product? Definitely it is not!

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BlackBerry OS 6.0: What do we know about it?

Friday, April 30th, 2010

BlackBerry-OS-6We have prepared some information for BlackBerry application developers. We hope that it will be interesting for them to read about the upcoming OS version from Blackberry.

Research In Motion wanted to stimulate our interest at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), that took place this week in Orlando, Florida. It’s a pity that the company, as usual, kept its mouth shut last week when all BlackBerry mobile apps developers asked about new photos and details in the Net about this very OS.

So, RIM demonstrated the next generation of its OS at this symposium, which begun on Thursday. RIM has confirmed nothing of the rumors about the BlackBerry OS, in addition, it announced its debut at the next quarter.

So, we will expect better integration with sensory devices, trackpad and QWERTY-keyboard support, especially for devices that have been already released, such as Storm, Bold, and the Tour. Unlike Microsoft, which has no plans to adapt the coming OS Windows Phone 7 Series for the previous phones, RIM will make the back-compatible OS. In other words, the updates will be available for the previous smartphone models.

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Steve Ballmer will tell about Windows Phone 7 in detail

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Programmers who specialize in apps development for Windows Mobile platform is waiting for the Microsoft MIX conference. This event will be held from the 15th to 17th of March in Las Vegas.

Microsoft has already demonstrated Windows Phone 7 to mobile developers and journalists. As all admitted, the next generation of Microsoft mobile operating system reverses the usual ideas, changes concepts of smartphones running Windows.

The developers changed their standard GUI in the new version of the operating system: now user content, tools for work and entertainment functions are divided into big five sections (or so called five “hubs”). Everything related to user contacts was placed in the first section “People”.

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The next hub “Pictures” provides access to galleries of pictures, photos as well as automatically updated photo albums in Facebook.

The third section “Office” is dedicated to work with documents. Microsoft promises that Mobile Office will be closer to the desktop version.

The fourth section was called “Music and Video”. As it was expected, its interface looks like the GUI of the Zune HD media player that was shown in the past year.

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And the last hub “Games” offers all the features for work with the Xbox LIVE gaming network, where users can communicate and customize appearance of their virtual characters (avatars).

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In the conclusion we should admit that Win Phone 7 supports multitouch opening new possibilities for Windows mobile applications development.

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Notable fact for mobile apps developers: LG believes in Android!

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The South Korean LG Electronics Company has published its mobile strategy for the year 2010. It is going to sell more than ten million of cell phones and smartphones. Also LG plans to release about twenty new models of smartphones this year and more than a half of them will be running OS Google Android. The rest models will be based on Windows Mobile and different Linux versions.
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Meanwhile, LG will gradually reduce the number of mobile devices with Windows Mobile “on board”. It’s a notable fact for mobile application developers, because analytics couldn’t foresee such changes. Only in 2008 LG Electronics and Microsoft formed an alliance to join their efforts in mobile devices development. Even in 2009 an absolute majority of LG smartphones were developed on the Windows Mobile operating system, and LG Eve was the only phone on the Android platform. This year the situation has changed dramatically and it definitely will have action upon those companies who provide such services as mobile application development for Android and Windows Mobile.

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Windows Mobile and iPhone OS: results of the year 2009

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Summing up results of the year 2009, it will be quite reasonable to choose the best operating system for successful mobile apps development. So, what operating systems did we have at the turn of the year? Of course, there were Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Symbian OS, Symbian UIQ, Linux Mobile, Palm OS and BlackBerry OS. Let’s try to investigate which of them has all chances to be called the best one.

Windows Mobile

Ah, this “old woman” still holds the largest market share. It has relatively out-of-date interface, nevertheless Microsoft delays the release of Windows Mobile 7 with touch-screen interface (as they promise) and complete compatibility with older apps versions. Though this OS has undoubted plus (a large number of good and stable mobile applications with rich functionality that was accumulated over the years), it’s not a permanent advantage. It can be lost soon as new operating systems are constantly adding new applications, offering new features and up-to-date interface. In general, if the next version of Microsoft Windows Mobile does not have any pleasant surprises for its users, the company will lose its market share under pressure of other mobile operating systems.

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iPhone OS

Yes, it’s beautiful, yes, it’s quite functional and it has already accumulated a lot of good features and high-quality applications. Due to the fact that iPhone has taken a considerable market share its application are relatively cheap (it’s an important bonus for those who choose a platform for a mobile device). But it has the main drawback: only Apple can produce hardware and iPhone source code is closed for mobile development companies. Nevertheless it’s not an obstacle for numerous Apple fans, Mac + MacOS + iPod + iPhone can be considered as a modern religion, it’s a way of live, no doubt.

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Why should I use PHP for web development?

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Looking for a proper web programming language focus your special attention on PHP. Why? Here we have listed some reasons for such a decision:

1. Start, learn and develop PHP-applications FREE OF CHARGE
Members of more than thousand communities will be glad to help you with php. Great number of PHP forums and web projects provide all the necessary information, be sure that you’ll find answers for some standard questions even before you will have time to ask them.
Of course, you will pay nothing starting your work with php (unlike Microsoft’s aspx language and others). No paid php software is needed; open source editing tools allow to develop web applications based on php without any investments.

2. Hundreds of php code examples and frameworks
You will find great number of php code examples, that will help you to learn this language and use it for successful web development. Frameworks will save your time and will allow to do the most of repetitive programming tasks. Just use Google to get some more new php code examples and frameworks.

3. The best choice for web 2.0 applications and hosting companies
Create with PHP web 2.0 applications with rich user interfaces and impressive functionality. Remember that php works with javascripts!
Also web hosting based on Linux or Windows will be glad to take care of your php web site. :)

4. The most of content management systems use PHP
Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress, some of the most popular open source CMS, written in php. It means that your php web development will be based on the following formula: free CMS + site functionality based on php + usability + qualitative design.
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