Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and others to be integrated with Windows Phone 7 and Flash is expected soon
Its a very exciting news for the social networking freaks. You can now enjoy the Windows Phone 7 more with integration to about 70 feeds. For this, Aaron Woodman, the MS director of consumer experiences says:
“We will absolutely support Twitter, and we’re working through the Windows Live team to do that. We actually have a pretty significant advantage in the sense that Windows Live has in most cases private reciprocal agreements with social networking. The point is that Windows Live actually helps us interact with those social networking feeds. And you’ll not only see Facebook and Windows Live but over 70 other feeds at launch. So you’ll see pretty wide integration.
In terms of contact integration where you see a lot of people show up I think that might be limited to your Webmail bases, so Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and your corporate mail like Exchange, and then Facebook and Windows Live. I’m not sure whether we will pull contacts from Twitter or just feeds.”
About Flash support:
“The Flash question is a good one but there are two types of “Nos.” “No we think it’s bad for the end user” or “No we just didn’t get to it.” Flash is in the second camp. The reality is that we have a very good working relationship with Adobe. Adobe announced that they are working on bringing Flash to a future version of Windows Phone. I fully expect that to be something that we support. It’s a really a question of time and how, not a question of whether we think it’s a good thing for end users. We do and we want to get it there. It’s just not there yet.”
About multi-tasking:
There’s a lot of sensitivity around multitasking. Joe Belfiore talked about it briefly during his presentation, where he said you’ll be able to listen to music and use other applications. We looked at end user behavior quite a bit in the development of the platform, and I think you will see the right behavior for the actual operating system in terms of multitasking. That being said, we’re really focused on the end user so there’s some trade-offs in the way we implemented that, and we’ll talk about that more in March.
Via Laptopmag
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