Windows Phone 7 To Get Multi-Tasking, IE9, Xbox Integration 266
geek4 writes "Microsoft is planning to introduce multi-tasking and full integration with Internet Explorer 9 in future updates to its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system later this year. IE9 on Windows Phone 7 will use the same core browsing engine as on PCs. Microsoft also talked about the importance of multi-tasking, and claims it can now offer fast task switching without causing serious detriment to the battery life. In particular, Microsoft said, this will improve the experience of using third party applications. In a demo, a Microsoft engineer showed how a music application called 'Slacker' could keep music playing in the background while the user moved between different applications. By holding down the 'back' button, users can also see all their recently accessed applications, allowing them to switch easily between them."
Microsoft also demonstrated how they're integrating WP7 with Xbox 360 consoles, showing a video of players using their phones as an auxiliary touchscreen controller to interact with a Kinect game.
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Microsoft is planning to introduce multi-tasking and full integration with Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went on to explain that this would involve installing easily exploited libraries and components of IE9 into WP7 kernel space with full read/write access to all other WP7 kernel modules so it could run faster than competing browsers on the devices. He then bragged that it would be extremely trivial for such a compromised phone to broadcast and infect all XBox 360's within range. Where botnets had once been constrained to the family PC, Ballmer boasted a larger market for penetration and manipulation sitting next to televisions in 50 million homes and nearly everyone's pockets. Ballmer explained that this new strategy was actually a throwback to the days of IE6 and he suspected that this move would make IE9 as pervasive as IE6 once was. Sony and Nintendo were unavailable for comment but it's clear Microsoft has once again won the hearts -- and minds -- of the world's malware authors.
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it would be extremely trivial for such a compromised phone to broadcast and infect all XBox 360's within range
A browser exploit can cause a phone to spontaneously sprout limbs, open your 360, connect itself to the JTAG header, and perform the NAND dumping and flashing nonsense currently required to run unsigned code? That's one hell of a phone!
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Then both people using it will really be impressed.
Re:Microsoft plays catchup? (Score:4, Funny)
If Microsoft released a 3D modeling tool, would it be called Scatchup?
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Re:Microsoft plays catchup? (Score:4, Funny)
Almost! I think it would be called 'ScatUp'. As soon as I find a link to confirm this, I'll squirt it to you.