The IDEA Awards are given out by the Industrial Designers Society of America. Check out this Monday post on the Next at Microsoft Blog for more detail. Earlier this week, the 2011 International Design Excellence Awards were announced and, despite very stiff competition, Windows Phone won the People’s Choice Award. For more information, read this Tuesday post on the Windows Phone Developer Blog. Knowing that, on average, people update their apps every three to four months, this October timeframe provides assurance that you can submit 7.5 apps today, and still have access to your 7.0 app well before the next update is required. We heard you, and are happy to report that, by the end of October, we will enable functionality in App Hub that will allow you to publish updates to both the 7.0 and 7.5 versions of your apps. We also acknowledged that some might find this limiting, as several of you have since confirmed.
Last month, the Windows Phone team noted that once you publish the 7.5 version of an application, you will no longer be able to modify the existing 7.0 version. Finally, don’t forget to vote in this Official Microsoft Blog poll asking what excited you most about BUILD.ĭevelopers: Submit your Windows Phone 7.5 apps now, update WP7 apps in October. 13th post on Blogging Windows, which also has a three and a half minute video featuring interviews with engineers from the Windows team. If that isn’t enough for you, read this Sept. However, just in case you missed any of the news that came out of BUILD, check out this Tuesday post on the Next at Microsoft Blog, which features a five and a half minute video montage of the keynote highlights from the conference. We unveiled developer previews of Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and Visual Studio 2011 and gave away prototype Samsung PCs featuring the developer preview version of Windows 8, among other things. If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard about this little conference we had last week in Anaheim, Calif. In this edition of The Midweek Download, we’ve got a look back at last week’s BUILD conference as well as stories about Windows Phone and Internet Explorer.
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