Windows Phone 7
First generation of Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Windows Phone 7 is the first release of the Windows Phone mobile client operating system, released worldwide on October 21, 2010, and in the United States on November 8, 2010. It runs on the Windows CE 6.0 kernel.[2]
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Version of the Windows Phone operating system | |
Developer | Microsoft Corporation |
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OS family | Windows CE |
Working state | Discontinued |
Source model | Closed-source |
General availability |
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Final release | Windows Phone 7.8 (Build 7.10.8862.144) / March 13, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03-13) |
Update method | Zune Software |
Package manager | XAP |
Platforms | 32-bit ARM architecture |
Kernel type | Monolithic (CE-based) |
License | Commercial proprietary software |
Preceded by | Windows Mobile 6.5 |
Succeeded by | Windows Phone 8 |
Official website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
Support status | |
Windows Phone 7: unsupported as of January 8, 2013.[1] Windows Phone 7.5: unsupported as of October 14, 2014 |
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It received multiple large updates, the last being Windows Phone 7.8, which was released in January 2013 and added a few features backported from Windows Phone 8, such as a more customizable start screen.
Microsoft ended support for Windows Phone 7 on January 8, 2013, and for Windows Phone 7.5 on October 14, 2014.[1] It was succeeded by Windows Phone 8, which was released on October 29, 2012.