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Have you developed Apps for any other platforms before? If Yes What are they? We haven’t

According to Pocketlint , “ multiple sources familiar with the matter ” have confirmed Windows Phone 7 will launch officially in New York on 11 October 2010. Pocketlint claims their unnamed sources were all senior figures within the industry that they know and trust. The Austrian DerStandard.at also report that Microsoft will be holding separate presentations in Germany on the same date,  with handsets available on Orange in late October, T-Mobile from the 20th October, from 3 by the end of October, with the other carriers indicating they would also launch  handset running the OS but unwilling to commit to the date due to NDAs

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Windows Phone 7 launching October 11th, coming to Austrian stores 20th October

The Xbox Kinect controller will be Microsoft’s major hardware/platform release other than Windows Phone 7 this holiday. Just like the latter, critics have lambasted the effort as copy of the Wii motion gaming capabilities and inferior to the PlayStation Move due the lack of physical controllers. It is also amazing to hear people bemoan the fact that most Kinect games shown so far force you to move around as you play the games (which the Wii also does) The video embedded above (which is unfortunately all in Japanese so if you know the language, please feel free to translate it for us) is called Karada de Kotareu Atarashii Nou-tore, or “Respond With your Body: New Brain Training,”

Recently Microsoft arranged a Windows Phone 7 event to showcase Applications developed for WP7 platform.Here is an interesting video of that event which has cool demos of new apps like Songbuzz, a social music app that allows users to share what they’re listening to, find out what their friends are listening to and discover new music,Sudoku 3D, Smiles – a really cute game with gorgeous graphics and great animations featuring several modes, from a full-on arcade mode to a more relaxed “zen mode”. Head over to the Blog for more event photos,Apps showcases and details

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Windows Phone 7 Blogger Night in Toronto Video

Like every industry Apple enters, their new Apple TV is making waves, even if those so far are not very large. Microsoft has also responded, by showing they do in fact have a product to answer the challenge –Windows Embedded Standard 7. Windows Embedded Standard is based on Windows 7, and in the most recent revision comes with Windows Media Centre

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Microsoft responds to Apple TV by promoting Windows Embedded connected home solutions

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsof…p7-announcement “Microsoft UK has announced, via Twitter, a “special event” on October 5th in London for developers in which the company will talk about “Windows Azure, Windows 7 and the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 7 and IE9″. Interestingly Steve Ballmer will introduce the opening keynote for the special event and it will be held in the large International Conference Centre (the G20 was held there last year and Microsoft has used the venue before).” Want some rampant rumor and speculation to add to your Tuesday

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Let Us Now Start Wild Speculation Regarding Launch Date

Via Neowin we hear that Microsoft UK is holding a developer meetup in London on the 5th October 2010.

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Could Microsoft UK Special Event mean Windows Phone 7 launch on the 5th October?

1)Have you developed Apps for any other platforms before? If Yes What are they? I have developed 4 other web games using Silverlight

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An Interview with WP7 Game Developer Jeff Weber

The Apple fall music event came and went and with it, the IOS platform, through the freshly minted iTunes 10, introduced a “magical” social component called Ping .

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Zune Social – Music as a social network: Lessons from the Apple Fall Music Event Part 1