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Microsoft Previews Upcoming WP7 Features

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Apr 13, 2011, 12:06 PM by Eric M. Zeman

During its MIX 2011 conference today in Las Vegas, Microsoft demonstrated a number of features and applications that are expected to become available to its Windows Phone 7 platform later this year. Microsoft's Joe Belfiore said that the Mango update, which includes multitasking, IE9, Twitter support in the People Hub, and better support for Office documents in SkyDrive, will be released this fall. (Microsoft previewed the Mango update at Mobile World Congress earlier this year.) Microsoft also showed off a number of new applications, such as Skype, Spotify, and Layar, that take advantage of a new set of software developer tools that will be released shortly. The new tools will give developers the opportunity to tap into WP7 device's cameras, gyroscopes and other sensors, which Microsoft says should be enough to support augmented reality applications.

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