After a brief introduction Ballmer has left the floor to Joe Belfiore, vice president of Windows at Microsoft Phone. The latter has joined the staff of the department moving 18 months ago, explains that the main objective was to redefine the ergonomics of the phone so radical, that is to say, from scratch. In the past, including Mr. Belfiore was responsible for designing the interface of Windows 95, Windows XP and worked on the Zune software. Starting from the observation that the smartphone is not a computer, the Redmond company has tried to rethink the grip of Windows Mobile. "We posed several questions," says he in particular: "How can we build a phone that would put forward the needs of users.
On the home screen, the interface of Windows 7 Phone Series is composed of different images forming dynamic way to penetrate several sections to the main uses of the phone (contacts, photos, games, photos and videos and office).
The section called People includes the book addresses the various email accounts (Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! But Exchange) or more community networks. "The goal is to bring together the traditional tasks of users in the same place," said Joe Belfiore. This section is divided into several side panels that can be scrolled from right to left. Besides the details of a person it is also possible to read the updates issued by it on several places. It is truly "to consolidate multiple data sources in one place," says he. Rather than open a dedicated Facebook application, it will be possible to comment on the status of a person on Facebook directly from the address book.
The group gathers photos of his recent photographs aside and those published by his friends. With a wave it is possible to see the latest photos from the camera, images loaded from the computer or those contacts from their address book on various community networks. We also find a feature to publish a photograph of the camera directly on the internet or sync on your PC.
One other major categories called Board and as its name suggests, offers the features of Microsoft Office Suite. "We wanted to bring the opportunities of Outlook Mobile," said Joe Belfiore in addition to affirming its multimedia capabilities, the mobile operating system will not disappoint any professional users. Thus in addition to an Exchange connection, we find the last notes synchronized with the terminal but also the shared documents in a SharePoint system.
Music files and videos are for their shares within the same section where the interface is based on that of the Zune. "All Windows Zune Phone will be," said the officer. At the opening, a list of previous albums is displayed. When your smartphone is connected to a PC is automatically recognized by the Zune management software that opens automatically, for example, to synchronize its playlists. Finally the Zune invite themselves well in France but will be directly embedded on Windows Phone.
Also note the arrival of XBox and XBox Live services directly to mobile. Besides his avatar and a record of its recent scores on Engadget should have access to a multi-player mode. Microsoft declined to say more about it but promises to return soon.
Mr. Belfiore particular emphasis on the capabilities of embedded browser. The software is based on code from the PC version of Internet Explorer. We find including multipoint to zoom in on a web page while maintaining a high-quality playback. More powerful than ClearType, it would be a technology called "sub pixel positioning. "This is truly the most powerful browser we've ever shipped in a phone," says Belfiore. On the side of the email, the manager is coupled to a cached data to prevent any latency. It is also possible to perform operations grouped particular with regard to the deletion of multiple messages in one go.
Windows 7 Series replaces Phone Does Windows Mobile? Not so sure. Steve Ballmer says in effect: "We continue to invest on Windows Mobile 6.5, but we develop together a new generation." When the MIX conference next month will include a session for developers, who should put their hands on a SDK.
The release of Windows 7 Phone is planned for autumn 2010
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