Microsoft has prepared app developers for the upcoming release of its Windows Phone 7 operating system. MS is running a series of workshops dubbed Windows Phone 7 Garage and Windows Phone 7 Firestarter to facilitate app development, and to support existing devs of Android and iPhone apps to port their programs over to WP7.

The workshops will include presentations on developing apps, an “Ignition” lab to help design apps, and the “Garage” where apps can be loaded onto a test phone to give them a run out. The faster Microsoft can get the app wheels turning as Windows Phone 7 hits, obviously the better the OS will perform in its launch phase. With the mobile fortunes of MS very much slumped currently, this is the big hope to claw back some of that market share from Google’s mobile operating system.

Figures from Gartner which were released in May showed Windows Mobile being force down to fifth spot by Android in the global smartphone market, with MS dipping to a 7% market share (compared to Android’s 10%).
News Source: www.techwatch.co.uk

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