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Windows Phone 7: No Multitasking, Stricter Microsoft QA | |
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| Time: 23:24 EST/04:24 GMT | News Source: OS News | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Later this month, Microsoft will most likely unveil It's no secret that Windows Mobile is in a rather dark place right now. Once quite popular and (after installing a number of third party tools) relatively usable in its day (i.e., the days of the stylus), it was quickly superseded by the iPhone OS, and things like Android and webOS are ahead of Windows Mobile as well - if not in market share, then in user experience.
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| #1 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/8/2010 6:20:51 AM |
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If these specs were thrue my HD 2 is going to be my last WM phone, at least until WM8.
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| #2 By 13997 (71.193.149.254) at 2/8/2010 12:49:33 PM |
| #1 What does a specific Windows "Phone" have to do with Windows Mobile? You are confusing a specific device with a platform. It would be like saying you wouldn't buy another WinCE device because of the Zune HD. Make sense? |
| #3 By 2332 (173.13.97.180) at 2/8/2010 1:47:31 PM |
| No multi-tasking is a deal breaker. |
| #4 By 35175 (91.84.187.29) at 2/8/2010 1:47:57 PM |
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Apparently, these awful restrictions only apply to version for the Zune. Third party devices will get the full blown version. See here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxcompact/thread/c5d2958b-a427-4f78-a955-d6fd2b70fdc7 |
| #5 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/8/2010 1:52:43 PM |
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The rumors and speculations, because this is what we are debating about, refers to WM 7 not to a specific "Windows phone'" so yes it makes sense.
OSNews use the words "Windows phone", other sources likes: www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/02/07/windows-mobile-7-details-emerge/ www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/windows-mobile-7-megarumor-lg-apollo-and-htc-obsession-running/ http://www.neowin.net/news/more-windows-mobile-7-details-leak say 'Windows Mobile 7" so until MS will clarify if the, supposed, specs apply to a specific phone or to the whole WM 7 OS I stand by my comments. Said that it seems very strange that MS would shoot itself on the feet offering only one flavour of the next mobile OS with all these limitations. Time will tell............. This post was edited by Fritzly on Monday, February 08, 2010 at 14:05. |
| #6 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at 2/8/2010 3:02:21 PM |
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Grrrr...
The word is: Where select devices would benefit from an experience restricted to single processes - like a gaming device, the mobile OS "may be" implemented in such a way as to support only one process at a time (like the iPhone and iPod Touch and iPad do). Or.... the OS may be configured to support pre-emptive multitasking. Or... the OS may be configured to support select background tasks - like Push, call management, etc.. and enter into a hybrid suspend state for running applications (not background tasks which will always be running where applicable), allowing suspended applictions to resume to the point at which they were suspended. It is the best of all possible worlds and designed to showcase how the new OS can be used across multiple MIDS device types and also be used to support things like connected televisions, or other connected devices. Despite this... our IDIOT press will focus on this and the truth won't matter a lick. |
| #7 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/8/2010 4:09:31 PM |
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#6:
Either way you can have applications in the background sending notifications but not running codes and this would be close to multi-tasking although not a true one, or applications in the background running code and this is real multi-tasking. Nowadays I honestly do not see the reason to eliminate multi-tasking: processors are already powerful enough to do it; not all of them I agree but my HD 2 is 100% up to the task and from what I have read the new Tegra will be even better. Besides the idea that I would not be able to install apps from my desktop or a memory card is alone, just for me of course, a no-go. Everybody here, me included, has complained for years about iPhone lack of multitasking and a closed, controlled environment; if MS will take the same path I will complain about as I did before; no blind love for me: "Cogito ergo sum". This post was edited by Fritzly on Monday, February 08, 2010 at 16:10. |
| #8 By 11888 (173.35.101.9) at 2/8/2010 8:20:24 PM |
| Only a dozen or so people will ever actually use this OS so who cares? |
| #9 By 95132 (96.25.183.211) at 2/11/2010 2:46:20 AM |
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I don't know what phone\device this person in the article is describing but it sounds worthless to me.
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