Windows Phone 7 Won't Offer Multitasking

[Park@82]

A Microsoft employee confirmed Tuesday that Windows Phone 7 won't be capable of true multitasking, the absence of which could limit the appeal of devices based on the OS among road warriors and other

demanding users.
"Windows Phone allows only one application to run at any given time in the foreground, and no 3rd party applications are allowed to run in the background," wrote Microsoft technical evangelist Yochay Kiriaty, in a note to developers Tuesday.

"Therefore when a user navigates away from your application, either to a chooser like picture chooser, or to a launcher like phone call, Windows Phone operating system terminates your application," Kiriaty said.

http://www.informationweek.com/news...cle.jhtml?articleID=225800150&subSection=News

not cool.

 

[murraybiscuit]

and currently, it doesn't look capable of launching to market either, which is more of a critical function.

 

[Fudzy]

Yeah WM7 has had an extremely bumpy ride, no multitasking will write it off.

 

[Vegeta]

Microsoft really farked up the "hype" around WM7. I mean they launched the awesome Windows 7 and hype was huge when they said they would do the same for mobile. They still have farkall at all

 

[Maddmatt]

Wow, that's a failure. Even the iPhone has (kinda) moved on from this no-multitasking crap.

If it can't multitask, it's not a smartphone.

 

[Park@82]

didn't WM 6/6.5 offer some sort of multitasking?

 

[DJNgoma]

didn't WM 6/6.5 offer some sort of multitasking?

Yes, yes it did. I'm not sure why everybody is shocked about WM7 now, this was said a few months back. Still a bad move IMHO.

 

[kingrob]

Dead in the water.

 

[Park@82]

RIP WM.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

And while Microsoft is dragging its feet releasing WM7, android is taking over. After getting tired of waiting, I went the Android route this week, by means of an HTC Desire, and wow! Microsoft will have to pull something amazing out of the hat to beat this. And this is before the upgrade to Android 2.2.