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I Wonder What This Means For Windows PhoneI Wonder What This Means For Windows PhonePosted May 30, 2012 23:48 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)Parent article: Moonlight sent into twilight (The H)
Windows Phone 7.x APIs are based on some subset of Silverlight 3. Now that Silverlight is dead, what happens to Windows Phone? There is some speculation that Windows Phone 8 will be built on an entirely different basis. Which in turn raises the question: what happens to backward compatibility?
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I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted May 31, 2012 1:04 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
WP7 goes out the window, WP8 will be based on Metro, and some MS developers are howling.
A mildly entertaining article but probably not representative of MS devs as a whole:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/121015-windows-8-may...
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted May 31, 2012 10:01 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
The WP7 phones I've seen already looked like they were running with a "Metro" style user interface.
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted May 31, 2012 22:48 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Yes, but they were written using a Silverlightesque environment. I understand devs are now expected to dump all that in the garbage and start using HTML 5.
Wonder what they'll have to do for Windows Phone 9...?
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted Jun 1, 2012 9:22 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
The Wikipedia article says WP7 apps are either Silverlight apps or written with XNA (another .Net based API, also available on the Xbox).
Even if they are pulling back on Silverlight I doubt they're removing XNA, so you're likely to see C#/.Net on their phones for some time.
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted Jun 1, 2012 16:37 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
In the past MS played down XNA, saying it's really only good for games: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402528(v=vs.92).aspx
They recently said that XNA will not be ported to Windows 8, leaving it phone-only. It's very unlikely that XNA will run on tablets. So, it's not a real good choice for a lot of apps.
We'll see when WP8 draws closer.
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted Jun 1, 2012 17:35 UTC (Fri) by Lovechild (guest, #3592) [Link]
You can use XNA in that context via MonoGame. It is increasingly becoming the tool to deliver cross platform XNA content, e.g. Bastion in the latest Humble Indie Bundle uses Mono to run on Linux.
XNA on Windows 8 is going to be possible, whether or not Microsoft ports their implementation.
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted Jun 1, 2012 19:40 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Bastion also uses Mono to run in Chrome.
I Wonder What This Means For Windows Phone Posted May 31, 2012 3:20 UTC (Thu) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
Just more "fire and motion." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
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