30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 21

The smartphone is a sort of Swiss Army knife that often needs to be capable of performing multiple functions simultaneously. For today’s 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 post I will take a closer look at how Microsoft is handling multitasking in “Mango”.

Multitasking is one of those features that should have been included in Windows Phone 7 at launch. Microsoft followed in Apple’s footsteps, though–implementing some basic multitasking for core Windows Phone 7 functionality, but leaving most apps out of the party. With “Mango” Microsoft is opening the APIs to let developers take advantage of the multitasking capabilities as well.