CNET’s Ina Fried has written a great article about Microsoft’s work to entice developers to create applications for Windows Phone 7. Microsoft’s approach is very different from that of other mobile platforms, and very different even from their own efforts with older versions of Windows Mobile. In the past there might have been 3 people working on the software development kit for Windows Mobile 6.x. With Windows Phone 7, that has changed drastically, and Microsoft is committed to working with developers large and small… not only to give them great tools to work with, but to help them along and respond to developers’ problems.
Ina also got to interview Sean Cook, Twitter’s manager of business development for mobile, who showed off a bit of the Windows Phone 7 Twitter app.
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Originally published on Pocketnow on October 4, 2010. More Windows Phone articles from the Pocketnow archive.