WP7 Updates: IE9, Twitter, Multitasking in 2011

[Nurhisham Hussein]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.anandtech.com/show/4176/microsoft-announces-a-host-of-windows-phone-7-updates' target='_blank'>http://www.anandtech.com/show/4176/...phone-7-updates</a><br /><br /></div><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1297735910.usr14226.jpg" style="border: #d2d2bb 1px solid;" /></p><p><a href="http://windowsphonethoughts.com/news/show/103752/a-different-kind-of-fruit-wp7-s-mango-update-to-feature-ie9-mobile.html" target="_blank">The scuttlebutt had it right</a> - among the updates&nbsp;Microsoft has planned&nbsp;for WP7 are a mobile version of IE9, a Twitter hub and (finally) multitasking. While there's no timeline for delivery of these updates, the expectations are that these will be delivered this year. More immediately, the&nbsp;first WP7 update (codenamed NoDo) has been confirmed for the first couple of weeks of March bringing with it copy and paste support, CDMA support and performance enhancements.</p>

[Janak Parekh]

Did you notice that there was no mention of Flash during the MWC event? Rather, they talked about HTML5 video. Interesting... ;)

--janak

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Hmm, no Flash is a bit of a downer. But the other upgrades look nice.

[Jason Dunn]

While there's no timeline for delivery of these updates, the expectations are that these will be delivered this year.

Well, sort of: second half 2011 is what they've said. So there's a timeline, but it's a vague one. ;)

[Jason Dunn]

Hmm, no Flash is a bit of a downer. But the other upgrades look nice.

Yeah, I was a bit surprised at that as well - I wouldn't rule it out, I think Microsoft may be hedging their bets based on what Adobe comes up with later this year...