14 DAY TRIAL // Redmond-based software company Microsoft seems determined to unveil as much as possible on its plans for the mobile market at the upcoming MIX10 conference in March this year, and it has scheduled eleven new sessions on Windows Phone for that event. Added to the already reported session, that makes a total of twelve discussions that the company has in store regarding Windows Phone application and game development.
For the time being, however, no exact details on what the focus during those sessions will be, though there are great chances that they are aimed at offering developers deep insights into how to build applications for the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 operating system, as previous reports suggested. At the same time, as Mary Jo Foley notes, we should expect for the exact details on these sessions to be unveiled after the Mobile World Congress, where Microsoft is set to unveil officially the next-generation mobile client/
Among the new announcements Microsoft made regarding the upcoming MIX10 conference, Mary Jo also notes the inclusion of a keynote from Joe Belfiore, “a Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Media Center and Zune user-interface veteran.” At the moment, Belfiore is corporate vice president of Windows Mobile Program Management, and the MIX site notes that he is responsible with “the overall design and product definition of the software that powers Windows Phones.”
There seems to be little doubt left on whether Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7 will be or not the main announcement of the first quarter of the ongoing year. All the latest rumors on the platform pointed towards the upcoming announcement regarding the launch of the OS, and with such a large number of sessions on Windows Phone set for the MIX10 conference, all is as good as confirmed. The software giant needs to make sure that developers have a deep understanding of the platform, since some suggested that it won't be compatible with previous flavors of Windows Mobile.