In an effort to draw raise public interest in its platform Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has decided to publish advice for migrating applications to the platform iOS Windows Phone 7.
Windows Phone appreciated praise for the quality development tools that simplify the life of programmers. A bunch of these software packages, like Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Silverlight and XNA form a complex of comfortable with excellent documentation. According to the developers, immediately after the announcement of the platform were available to some 15 000 applications. Just expected a large number of improvements, which carries with it a version 7.5.
Developers pay little attention to the system for a very simple reason: it does not sell Windows Phone and 7 are very many competitors in the face of Android, iOs, Symbian. Apple has a huge store, which allows developers to sell their products in huge quantities, and the Android Market got good speed. In turn, Microsoft, issued instructions to quickly transfer applications iOS on their platform promises on the bigger picture. In the near future should see a similar instruction to developers for Symbian and Android.
No one can predict what will be the effect of such action. Porting applications to new mobile platform is not much difficulty, but due to low sales results there is lack of enthusiasm among developers. Just complicates the development of platform no OpenGL ES 3D API, as well as a full-fledged IDE focused on the mobile platform.
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