Mozilla is ceasing its browser-development work for Windows Cellular phones — no surprise, given Microsoft has no plans to further that platform. But Microsoft;s browser rival also has decided against developing a Windows Phone 7 version of Firefox,
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Windows 7 32 Bit, Stuart Parmenter (technical lead of the Mozilla Mobile Team) is citing Microsoft;s decision not to allow native third-party application improvement on the Windows Phone 7 platform as its reason for discontinuing advancement. Microsoft officials reiterated last week at Mix 10 that Silverlight and XNA are the advancement environments for Windows Phone 7 devices,
Cheap Windows 7, and C# is the only advancement language supported for now. Microsoft is including a cellular version of Internet Explorer with the platform that falls somewhere between IE 7 and IE 8,
Purchase Office 2007, in terms of features and functionality, company officials have said.There is one third-party application which Microsoft is allowing to circumvent these rules: Adobe Flash. Microsoft Group Product Manger for Windows Phone Developer Experience Charlie Kindel told me last week that Microsoft has decided to allow Adobe to develop a version of Flash that will access the Windows Phone 7 platform natively. Microsoft made this exception because Flash is considered part of the inherent cellular experience. (A number of Microsoft;s own applications that will run on the platform also seem to have been granted an exception and are not,
Genuine Windows 7, at least for the time being, built using Silverlight, as Istartedsomething.com blogger Long Zheng noted last week.)I;m wondering whether Microsoft will bend the managed-apps-only for any other third-party applications besides Flash. So far, the word seems to be no….(Thanks to MobileTechWorld.com for the pointer to the Mozilla blog post on Windows Phone 7.)