He didn't rule out app developers being able to modify existing apps for the new platform, but said there was no guarantee this would be easy or even possible to do. Having already revealed there would be no upgrade path to the new OS for Windows Mobile 6.5 users, Microsoft's Charlie Kindel partner group programme manager for the Windows Phone application platform and developer experience to use his full title revealed in a blog post that 'previous Windows mobile applications will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series'.īuilding on comments that Windows Phone 7 was 'a clean break' and was new 'from the ground up', Kindel remarked that Microsoft's aim was 'to change how phone apps were written'.
A senior Microsoft executive has revealed that Windows Phone 7 Series devices won't run applications written for Windows Mobile 6.5 or any other legacy Microsoft mobile operating system.
