By mitchp
via infoworld.com
Published: Mar 18 2010 / 10:20
Microsoft confirmed Monday at the company's Mix 10 developers event that native applications will not be allowed on Windows Phone 7 devices. Only applications running in the Silverlight runtime environment, or games in the XNA Game Studio runtime, will be allowed.



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Topnotch replied ago:
This is excellent news actually. There has just been too many exploits (buffer overflow anyone?) from unmanaged code in the wild and this will help developers create applications faster and users to deal with viruses and malware less. A win-win scenario.
cajo replied ago:
Sorry, but actually this is bad news, really bad. Microsoft is following Apple in allowing only 'managed' (read: signed) code to run on their platforms. This means your app has to be approved, and can be disabled, or even removed, at their whim. (contractually enabled) This is the world of control they are seeking; the one major thorn in their side is Android / Java. Consider carefully, where you want to spend the majority of your mobile development effort. As always, it is developers who make the platform.
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