It’s Windows Mobile Jim, but not as we know it.

Windows Mobile 7 developer tools were made available at MIX10 this week.

The good news is that they make great use of Silverlight and XNA.

The bad news is that there is no .NET compact framework.

Thus any Visual Basic/C# skills are now redundant for Windows Mobile development.

As a mobility developer I have to decide how I spend my development time. In terms of a target audience it has to be the iPhone and iPad. While I may be competing in a jungle of iPhone apps I fancy my chances more than spending time developing Windows Phone applications for a very small user base.

So watch this space as iPhone Apps start appearing.

And who knows, you may even see the odd Windows Phone app as well.

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