Tiles then launch into sessions and pages. Tiles are supposed to be animated and dynamic. Instead of standalone application icons, WP7S uses "tiles." In practice, these are almost the same thing, except developers can both change the icon and dominant text to notify the user at-a-glance of status changes or updates. Metro - "It's about content and typography" In its place, it has created a typographically-driven "user experience" that takes taken nods from Windows Media Center, the Xbox Dashboard, Zune HD interface, and urban signage. Microsoft has tossed out the Windows CE-derived, aging UI of Windows Mobile.
#Color note for windows phone series
The sense of urgency is because Windows Phone 7 Series will ship before the end of the year ("Holiday 2010").
Microsoft wants developers to forget about Windows Mobile and immediately start thinking WP7S. To give you an example of just how banished Windows Mobile is, there was virtually no discussion of porting applications from Windows Mobile to WP7S - this is a completely different platform. Consider Windows Mobile officially banished from the Microsoft kingdom, and you get the perspective. Existing hardware will get support for corporate clients, and the developer tools will remain, but they won't be actively developed. That means Windows Mobile applications won't run on WP7S, hardware running Windows Mobile won't run WP7S (including HTC's HD2), and Windows Mobile is no longer being actively developed. Let's start at the beginning - WP7S does away completely with everything Windows Mobile. Microsoft MIX 2010 has drawn to a close, and with it comes our concluding wrap-up of everything that there is to discuss about Windows Phone 7 Series (henceforth WP7S).
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