Microsoft: Mango Will Roll Out “In The Next Week Or Two”(techcrunch.com)
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Microsoft: Mango Will Roll Out “In The Next Week Or Two”
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It's more like a quick resume than real multitasking, except for audio playing apps.
That's pretty much how all the big mobile OS's handle multitasking save WebOS. Even if they keep processes running there isn't any real UI navigation that separates the running from the paused from the dead.
I really loved the WebOS cards UI. It's a shame it's dead, hopefully Android will move in that direction since they hired the head of WebOS's UI design team.
I really loved the WebOS cards UI. It's a shame it's dead, hopefully Android will move in that direction since they hired the head of WebOS's UI design team.
It's very rare to really need multitasking when you don't do stuff that takes a long time, something that's getting less and less common, even for developers.
Microsoft seems to have learnt a lot since the lat update. NoDo update took a bit longer to be delivered. Mango seems much better planned. Good to see Microsoft learning from past experiences.
It's a great thing for users and developers alike because this is one sweet release. Have been using it for some time now and loving it since day 1.
It's a great thing for users and developers alike because this is one sweet release. Have been using it for some time now and loving it since day 1.
I'd never heard of this product. From the title, I had my hopes up that MS bought that failed desktop-based distributed storage product from the late 90s called Mango and brought it back to life. It seemed a very cool and ambitious product, perhaps too ahead of its time.
Anyone else remember that product? I can't even find mention of it on Wikipedia.
Anyone else remember that product? I can't even find mention of it on Wikipedia.
Would be nice if they could finally deliver something! MS is talking about this update since February, yet people are still waiting...
They've always said Fall 2011 and Fall starts on Friday. What are you talking about?
I know, but I guess that's called frustration because of WP7 stagnation. Both Android and iOS get planty of updates with new features and WP7 users are still waiting to get the basics like background audio since almost one year.
After No-Do, Mango will be update number 2 for Windows Phone, if you don't count that update to enable updates which didn't really work on first try and had to be updated again.
Anyway, I wonder how many unpatched security holes IE mobile has by now.
Good for them they don't get all the media presence Android and iOS do.
Edit: Why the downvote? I remember iOS updates fixing plenty of security bugs so I assume there are lots of unpatched holes in WP7.
Edit: Why the downvote? I remember iOS updates fixing plenty of security bugs so I assume there are lots of unpatched holes in WP7.
My NoDo update worked the first time so do you mean only for Samsung Focus phones?
1) Finally some non-MS apps that'll support multitasking, yay!
2) I'll believe it when I see it
Hopefully, my dev drop of Mango will allow me access to RTM Mango apps on the app store, so #2 really won't matter.