Brien Posey - My Windows Phone 7

Brien Posey

800 East 96th Street,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA

My Windows Phone 7

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Greg Wiegand

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Brien Posey is a seven-time Microsoft MVP with two decades of IT experience. Prior to becoming a freelance technical writer, Brien served as CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities. He has also worked as a network administrator for some of the nations largest insurance companies and for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox.

Since going freelance in 2001, Brien has become a prolific technical author. He has published many thousands of articles and numerous books on a wide variety of IT topics (primarily focusing on enterprise networking). In addition to his writing, Brien has provided consulting services to clients all over the world and occasionally speaks at various IT conferences.

When Brien isnt busy writing, he enjoys traveling to exotic places around the world with his wife, Taz. Together they have visited more than 50 countries. In fact, a portion of this book was written during an expedition to Antarctica. Some of Briens other personal interests include scuba diving, aviation, and shredding waves in his Cigarette boat.

I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Taz, for her love and support throughout my entire writing career.

First and foremost, I would like to thank my wife, Taz, for her patience and understanding while I was writing this book. Writing a book is a time-consuming process that unfortunately results in friends, family, and household chores being neglected. I feel fortunate to have a wife who has put up with my crazy writing schedule for the past 16 years and understands when I have to dedicate extra time to my writing.

I would also like to thank Loretta Yates for allowing me to write this book and for providing me with many other writing opportunities over the years. It is always a pleasure to work with Loretta, and her easy-going attitude helps to ease the stress involved in taking on a project like this one.

Finally, I want to thank Troy Thompson for doing the technical editing for yet another one of my books. I first met Troy back in the late 1990s when we both worked at Fort Knox (thanks again for helping me to pass my Exchange Server exam). Even though I left Fort Knox in the late 90s, Troy has remained one of my best friends and has helped me with numerous projects like this one. I sleep well at night knowing that Troy is hard at work trying to keep my mistakes from making it into print.

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As someone who has been working with Windows phones and other Windows Mobile devices for well over a decade, I am amazed by just how far the technology has come. Windows Phone 7 includes features that were absolutely unheard of in previous Windows Mobile operating systems, such as an integrated Zune, Xbox Live, and one-touch access to multiple email accounts.

As a way of helping you to better appreciate just how far Windows phones have come, I want to start out by giving you a brief history of the Windows Mobile operating system. After that, I talk about some of the most notable changes (both good and bad) that Microsoft has made in Windows Phone 7.

Microsofts first mobile operating system was Windows CE, which stood for Compact Edition. It was based on extremely stripped down Windows 95 code. In creating Windows CE, Microsoft removed the APIs for everything that wasnt absolutely critical so that they could make Windows small enough to run on a mobile device. Of course back then there were no Windows phones. The first Windows CE devices were little more than glorified PDAs.