Windows Phone is a complete overhaul and a new phone operating system. Apps created for Windows Mobile will not work on Windows Phone.

In a blog entry, Microsoft's Charlie Kindle, Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience, noted that Windows Phone 7 Series is different from "what we've done in the phone space before and it's different from other phones..The Windows Phone 7 Series developer platform is as different as the new user experience. It's fresh. It's pure. And it's powerful."

The development Windows Phone 7 developer experience builds upon

    * .NET
    * Silverlight
    * XNA platform
    * Microsoft's developer tools.
    * Web 2.0 standards.

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