Windows Phone 7 finalised

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 02 September 2010 18:56

Your IT - Mobility

Microsoft has put the finishing touches on Windows Phone 7, so handsets will be on sale in time for the Christmas shopping season.

Various changes have been made to Windows Phone 7 since the Technical Preview was released. These include improvements to the People Hub to filter Facebook contacts, directly 'like' posts, and quickly post a message to someone else's Facebook wall.

Windows Phone 7 has now been released to manufacturing, so all that remains is for Microsoft's partners to integrate the OS with their hardware and networks, then the first phones will go on sale in time for Christmas.

Terry Myerson, corporate vice president of Windows Phone, described the new software as "the most thoroughly tested mobile phone platform Microsoft has ever released."

Last week, the company announced that the final (ie, non-beta) Windows Phone Developer Tools will be released on September 16.