Comments on Matt Lacey's Blog: Windows Phone 8 and WinRT

The "Windos Phone Centre of Excellence" ...

2012-01-13T16:53:58.848Z

The "Windos Phone Centre of Excellence" has 2 functions. They support some of Microsoft's partners with application development and they perform design and quality reviews for showcase apps.

What is the Windows Phone Center of Excellence?

2012-01-13T16:47:40.429Z

What is the Windows Phone Center of Excellence?

Good point EShy. I hear a lot about of people assu...

2011-12-09T20:52:03.724Z

Good point EShy.
I hear a lot about of people assume that because "Windows 8 can run on a chip" it'll be used to power the Phone OS as well. They forget that there are various reasons this wasn't done in the past.

Yes, the "3 screens and a cloud" strategy encourages a tight integration between phone and desktop (& XBox - which we're starting to see too) but that doesn't mean they should share a codebase.

I think the main reason for this confusion and rum...

2011-12-09T20:38:11.418Z

I think the main reason for this confusion and rumors comes from things Steve Ballmer and Joe Belfiore both said.

Steve said windows 8 and windows phone 8 will be more integrated. I assumed he meant the experience will be similar, apps will communicated across the devices (in a similar way to XBOX and WP7 with the new companion)

Joe said at some point the tools should converge as much as possible. That makes sense, at some point, that I'll be able to create an app that is mostly the same across the microsoft platfroms, the three screens, and only have to do a different UI layer for each (really, just the views should be different)

Both of these things make sense, it also makes sense that at some point, MS will merge those two operating systems.

I agree it's time, but I don't think it's the time before WP8 or W8 is released, I think it's the time it will take before they can make a big change like that to the still very new windows phone