Stumbled across Charlie Kindels latest blog entry, posted yesterday. Kindel is the Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience and he writes about what looks like the first official statement prior to the MIX10 conference that takes place in Vegas in a week or so.
In the post he confirms that there will be a clean cut from Windows Phone 6.X and Windows Phone 7. There will be some cases where apps developed for 6 will work on 7 but all in all… the Windows.Forms way of doing phone applications is dead.
I encourage you to read the full post, he also explains why quite well.
Microsoft will however as usual continue to support Windows Phone 6 based devices for several years.
Digi.no has published an article in norwegian about developers having to adapt to the changing requirement after reading Kindels post.
Follow the Windows Phone 7 Dev team on twitter for more information.
