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Microsoft has launched its most awaited new mobile operating system at Mobile world congress which they have called as “Windows phone 7 series”. It is rebranded from “Windows mobile” to “Windows phone 7 series”. They are now planning to launch their own mobile phone instead of only selling their OS to other phone manufacturers like HTC. This might directly compete with Apple iphone. In the same way that the Windows 7 desktop OS was nearly everything people hoped it would be, Windows Phone 7 is almost everything anyone could’ve dreamed of in a phone, let alone a Microsoft phone. It changes everything. Why? Now that Microsoft has filled in its gaping chasm of suck with a meaningful phone effort, the three most significant companies in desktop computing—Apple, Google and Microsoft—now stand to occupy the same positions in mobile. Phones are officially computers that happen to fit in your pocket.
Not only name is different but the makeover done here is also big. New look of the OS is largely influenced by their own “Zune” player interface. The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobile efforts from Microsoft, from the look and feel down to the underlying code — everything is brand new. It features completely different home screen and fully new user interface. It seems Windows has finally realized to change their traditional stylus friendly interface to finger friendly interface. Seems like heat of competition from other manufacturers specially
“Apple”.
The Home page of the new interface has big finger friendly icons aka “live tiles” which will internally call their own old applications. Home page is fully customizable and can be scrolled vertically. Old style start menu is probably gone. Home page interface with widget like icons seems to be inspired by android. they’re linked with online data sources such as Facebook or Flickr or email, grouped in “hubs” that bring together data from applications, corporate servers like Microsoft Exchange, and the Web. Text and tiles “overflow” the touch screen, but users pan quickly through arrangements that are visually consistent in each hub.
New OS is well focused in social networking. “People hub” feature is all you need here. Updates from all your friends in different social networking site facebook are directly displayed. Still it has no twitter support but should be coming soon. I find it very useful as it gets rid of opening different sites and check updates in all. if you really like someone or want to stalk them hardcore, you can make them a tile on your Start screen, which will update in realtime with whatever they’re posting, and pull down their photos from whatever service. There’s also your very own profile page, where you can scan your current social state and post updates to multiple services simultaneously. All of your contacts are automatically synced by internet to Microsoft exchange, windows live etc.
Just like Apple’s strategy of “Iphone with Ipod” will be “Windows 7 with Zune ” in new operating system. The phone will have built in zune player. This is your media hub. Also they have added FM radio in this hub.
Pictures are a little different though, and get its very own hub. That’s because it’s intensely connected—you can share photos and video with social networks straight from the hub, and via the cloud, they’re kept in sync with your PC and web galleries. The latest photos your friends post also show up here. Of course, you get around with multitouch zoom and zip-zip scrolling stuff.
There is xbox icon on the home page that means you can access xbox live directly from your mobile phone. It indicates that there might be some mobile games are in queue to be launched. What I hope is some improvement in Internet explorer as of now it sucks a big time!!

Windows phone 7 series operating system will be released to other mobile manufacturers also like HTC, Sony etc. They have to comply with strict hardware requirement like multi touch, dedicated start and search button,

Final words are “I definitely want to try it”. It combines zune, xbox etc in your mobile phone in new better organized manner. It seems there is now hope for Microsoft to survive in mobile world with its new mobile phone.

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