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XNA Game Studio 4 to bring unified game development to WP7, Xbox and desktop

Michael Klucher, Lead Program Manger for the XNA Development Platform, revealed XNA Game Studio 4 in a blog post prior to GDC today.

XNA Game Studio 4.0 allows for game development on Windows Phone 7 Series, Xbox 360, and Windows PC.

On Windows Phone 7 it will feature hardware accelerated 3D API’s on Windows Phone 7 Series and Visual Studio 2010 integration, for Xbox partners Xbox LIVE and a premium gaming experience on Windows Phone 7 Series.

Jel moze windows mobile 6 na samsung corby

Naravno da ne.

Sada je i zvanicno potvrdjeno na Microsoft Mix konferenciji - ovo sranje namenjeno retardiranim korisnicima zvano WP7 nece imati multitasking, pristup fajl sistemu, zabranjene su memorijske kartice, nema instalacije van MarketPlace-a. Umesto WinMo, dobili smo iPhone nr. 2.      

Evo samo dela informacija:

Win Phone 7 Ditches Multitasking, Memory Cards
Microsoft goes for a much more controlled, consumer experience


LAS VEGAS – The new Windows Phone 7 platform will avoid multitasking third-party apps, nix support for user-replaceable memory cards, and demand that all apps be installed from Windows Phone Marketplace, a Microsoft executive said Monday.

Charlie Kindel, who is in charge of Microsoft's Windows Phone developer strategy, described a much more controlled, iPhone-like experience for formerly freewheeling Microsoft in an interview at the MIX10 conference here.

Microsoft needed to exercise some control to provide a great set of consumer experiences, Kindel said. And notice that word "consumer" – Microsoft isn't offering much to enterprise IT folks with this release of Windows Phone 7. This is a consumer device.


Like the iPhone, Windows Phone 7 won't support third-party apps being able to run in the background. But third parties will get access to a wider range of services than are available on the iPhone. For instance, Pandora could stream in the background using a special background-music service, Kindel said. But VoIP apps will be limited; there won't be a service to allow third-party apps to access telephony in the background.

Microsoft doesn't have anything against background processing – they just need to find a way to do it that doesn't kill responsiveness and battery life. They're still working on the issue, Kindel said.

"Apps that run arbitrarily in the background create an end user experience where battery life and responsiveness of the system becomes … inconsistent," Kindel said. "We focused on getting a set of experiences right where we didn't have to support [multitasking,] but we will over time."

Those third-party apps will all have to be installed from Microsoft's own Marketplace, Kindel said. Initially, there won't even be a way for enterprise customers to deploy apps to their staffs, but Microsoft is working on one. Microsoft may sweeten the deal for developers with lower fees to submit apps to the Marketplace, but the details haven't been worked out.

"We are revamping a lot of the marketplace policies, [and] we have a real desire to make sure that for developers, getting started is cheap and easy," Kindel said.

Windows Phone 7s won't support user-replaceable memory cards, Kindel said. Microsoft will work with OEMs to make sure that phones have enough storage for media and 3D games, but there will be no MicroSD cards for your music. Some phones could have a MicroSD locked under the battery, but it won't be user-replaceable.

Izvor

U suštini i oni bi da zgrću lovu od aplikacija i igrica sa app stora kao Apple. I stvarno su Microsoft dizajneri prevazišli sebe portovanjem zune UI na telefon, mada dizajn i Microsoft ne idu zajedno ( savaki windows je odvratan bio to mobilie ili desktop).

Ne mogu da verujem. Tesko da ce im ovo proci. Vec postoji jedan takav OS i ne verujem da ce otkinuti aplle-u neki znacajan deo kolaca.

    
      
               

Nadam se da ce i oni da puknu glavom o zid i da se opamete! 
Pre bih uzeo iPhone nego telefon sa 7-icom 

Windows Phone 7 series – the bad news  

Plenty of bad news for those who liked how Windows Mobile worked.

Some of these include: (ima ih jos  )
No true multi-tasking, except for special hub apps like Pandora. 
Marketplace is the only way to install apps, except for developers, beta versions and enterprise.
No removable storage.   
No file system – apps can only access their own directory.   
No USB drive mode.   
No replacement of the default apps – while Opera will be allowed, it could not be the default browser. 
No 3rd party shells
No native code
No peer to peer gaming.

Is there anything else about Windows Phone 7 that makes you want to stick with your Windows Phone 7 device forever?   

Via WMExperts.com

Iz prvog proistice drugo - kad nemas fajl sistem pristup, nema ni USB drive rezima.

Stvar je cak i gora - bez "native" koda ne moze se razviti nijedna ozbiljna aplikacija, tako da ni browser nije moguce napraviti, vec ce to sto se eventualno pojavi biti samo ekstenzije iliti teme za Internet Explorer. Prakticno je nemoguce da se npr. Opera Mobile pojavi za WP7.

Inace, mislim da sada, kada je sve jasno, treba naprosto da ignorisemo vesti o Microsoft iPhone OS-u i okrenemo se pravim stvarima - WinMo 6.x, Androidu, MeeGo OS-u.