What’s new in Windows 7.5 (formerly Mango)
General stuff talked about elsewhere:
- Internet Explorer 9 coming to Windows Phone – with the same code base and features as the desktop with some minor differences specific to the phone (no Activex support for example).
- HTML5 rendering engine to the phone
- SQL CE: in-memory local SQL database for ease of data applications
- Multi-tasking and Live Agents: real time interactions via Live Tiles, Push Notifications, Deep Linking and Background Agents.
- Live tile enhancements such as multiple Live tiles per app, deep linking, …
- Silverlight 4
- Sockets
- Ringtone API
- Raw camera feed access to applications
- Additions to developer tooling: new Location tooling, Accelerometer tooling, profiler and support for Silverlight and XNA in the same project
Znet blog:
And I can’t talk about anything else:
And I got nothing else right now, but I am sitting in meetings talking about Mango. Learning a bunch.