Details of what we can expect from Windows Phone 7’s multitasking have begun to leak out, and they’re pretty interesting, considering the drive towards multitasking friendly mobile operating systems.
Windows Phone 7, if nothing else, looks genuinely interesitng...
When Microsoft initially unveiled the mobile compliment to Windows 7, the fairly appropriately named Windows Phone 7, people were impressed by its clean aesthetics, the fact that it’ll have minimum hardware requirements, which should help sidestep some Android users’ horsepower issues cropping up. Still, ever since that first announcement, questions have been going around about just what we can expect from Microsoft’s mobile OS.
Now though, it seems that the folks from Cnet have had a chance to get a little more detail on Windows Phone 7, including some information on how multitasking will work. Perhaps most interesting is the fact that how multitasking will work is not yet finalised; Microsoft corporate vice president, Joe Bellfiore said of multitasking,
“It’s highly likely we will suspend (applications running in the background) when a device gets to a low memory state.”
Of course, the inference we can’t help but draw from this statement is that Widows Phone 7 will have some honest, straight up multitasking until the point where it’s deemed to be running low on memory, at which point it’ll switch over to something a little more like Android’s idea of multitasking.
Still, with Apple yet to unveil anything about its own much rumoured multitasking addition to the iPhone OS, things could see a bit of a shakeup yet.
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