MWC2010: Microsoft gets serious about mobile with Windows Phone 7

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: It’s now official- Microsoft’s next mobile phone platform, Windows Phone 7 is a phone and not a PC. However, the technical details and the changes made to the operating system kernel have not been revealed by the company.

According to Steve Balmer, Microsoft CEO, who hosted the press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft wanted to do things that were out of the box, that were clearly differentiated from its past and hopefully from other [offerings] in the market.

Microsoft has made it clear that new set of software development tools and resources, and presumably a software development kit, will be forthcoming but put off details until the company’s MIX10 Web developer conference next month in Las Vegas.