Windows Mobile 6.5 apps won’t run on Windows Phone 7 Series
By Ilinca Nita on 05 Mar 10Microsoft keeps on saying that Windows Phone 7 Series is really different from the past versions of its mobile OSes – and, well, it is. In fact, it’s so different that applications compatible with Windows Mobile 6.5 (or older) will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series devices.
The Redmond giant is getting ready to “pull the cover off of the Windows Phone application & game developer experience” during MIX10 (15 – 17 March). Before this to happen, Microsoft developer Charlie Kindel officially confirmed that there’s no backward compatibility between WP 7 and WM 6.5. We’ve already heard that Windows Mobile 6.x handsets won’t be upgraded to Windows Phone 7, so this may not come as a surprise.
Charlie Kindel also said that the development of Windows Phone 7 Series is based on .NET, Silverlight, XNA (for advanced game development), Web 2.0 standards and, of course, Microsoft’s developer tools.
The first ever Windows Phone 7 Sereis device might he the LG Panther, which could be launched in September.
As for Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft will continue to release devices based on it and support the platform “for many years to come.”
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