The new mobile operating system from Microsoft, forthcoming, it's called Windows 7 Phone Series and was presented in recent days at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Is presented by the Gizmodo site as the biggest shake up the mobile market since the iPhone and the system that Microsoft should have submitted 3 years ago to be on par with Apple.
I can not tell if these judgments are deserved or not, or whether all the promises that now Microsoft is offering to its future customers will be respected. Already in the past, the expectations have been disappointed (one for all the major features expected with Vista). He then left at the time the final verdict.

During the presentation, the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, said: "We're talking about phones and how consumers want to use them.The choir has made Joe Belfiore, vice president of Windows Phone: "The phones seem to PCs, but they are not. They are smaller, more personal." From the entries received by the press, Phone Windows 7 Series is the result of joint work of the team of Windows Mobile and Zune.

Here are the main expectations from this new mobile operating system for mobile phones developed the next generation. The first is the 'interface, which has been totally rethought and redesigned, no longer static background, Start Menu, dropdown menu, check box controls taken from the world and the classic Windows Forms, but a series of graphical components that move, flow, you zoom in and out and change shape on the screen with maximum clarity and expressiveness.

The new layout, kernel-based Windows CE 6, uses every moment to maximize the space available, with pictures and large fonts and colorful.

Using the advantages of touch screen, each button can be moved in position, or removed, the better to agree on how to use the user.

In addition each individual application can be added to the Quick Launch menu, to be found more easily in the future. Each menu item, once selected, causes transitions and effects of great impact to review its ramifications or connections.

Unlike the past, the producers will not be empowered to change or modify the interface proposal, which will be unique for all devices.

Windows 7 Phone Series is an operating system born to be always connected to the network (such as Android and Palm webOS) to fully exploit all the possibilities.One example is the screen, which, besides being completely customizable, it offers an overview of all elements of interest for you, updated minute by minute: electronic mail, links to social networks, information from your Xbox Live profiles, RSS and news .

The organization of the task is mainly based on the hub, an interface layer which is exactly halfway between the screen and the applications themselves.Thanks to the hub, the logic of interaction is directed along the main wire logic defined in the categories.

In practice this is a horizontal scrolling screens, which contain links and views, local and remote data, with which the user can easily interact and make their choice. This choice is divided among the available categories: contacts, pictures, games, music and videos, Marketplace and office.

In the Contact section is gathered all the information acquaintances: it is not just an address book, but a real place for interaction with the community, hence it is possible to update the profiles Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Exchange or Windows Live.

Its submenu is recent, All New: you can see in the first profile updates social network of friends, in the latter is instead shown the complete list and the last are instead aggregated into a single list of all the latest updates period.

The Images section contains all the images available in local memory and adds comfort even those shared by your contacts in Network E 'also an icon called me, where you can modify your status across the network.

The Games section is integrated with your account Xbox LIVE, and is able to view their three-dimensional avatars, games LIVE, the progress made, Spotlight and more. The hardware platform also has all the prerequisites for running games (of which there is no sign for now) more than decent and it seems very likely an increasingly close link with the world of consoles.

The Chamber Music and Video uses the same interface as the Zune HD, allowing the user to move between their multimedia content with ease and make purchases.

The area Marketplace is the place where you can buy new applications. Section Office has several functions: first, to synchronize all the documents on the phone with your PC.Besides this is available the application OneNote, Outlook for email, etc.. The software will be able to recognize the addresses in the e-mail threats and shown in maps of Bing.

The integrated browser is Internet Explorer, of course, not as fast as mobile Safari, but enriched by the ergonomics of multitouch. The default search is Bing, with its maps and all its services.

The activation of the search engine is available everywhere in use and act local, remote and above listing, that is associated with the current activity, if for example we are working on the contacts, the search will take place primarily on those, if we are browsing will be performed a search on the Net and so on.The interface is now also equipped with a new touchscreen keyboard, fitted with a self-corrective capacity and reuse of words already used in the past.

As for hardware requirements for producers, the multinational company in Seattle has this time decided to launch a massive crackdown. While remaining alien to the production itself, Microsoft wants its customers to avoid being in hand, as has already happened, a powerful device, but not at performing.

Here are the main requirements: a capacitive multitouch screen WXGA display with at least 4 points of contact (like the iPhone), CPU and GPU - point of departure the Qualcomm Snapdragon - accelerometer, a 5 megapixel camera, FM radio, Wi-Fi, AGPS .

Also according to Joe Belfiore, each device will have three buttons on the front: Start, for access to applications, Bing for research and a Back button.Also in different positions will be required and that the power button to control the camera.

It appears that for now, the Microsoft hardware partners are accredited by Dell, HTC, Garmin ASUS, LG, Samsung, SE, Toshiba, HP and Qualcomm.It also begins to define the list of carriers: In addition to AT & T, the official partner of the United States, we Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italy, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Windows Phone 7 Series should hit the market by the end of this year. For more detailed information refer to Microsoft MIX10 in mid-March.