Windows Mobile 6 apps to work on Windows Phone 7 Series?

While Windows Mobile 6.x apps, available in the Windows Mobile Marketplace, arent anywhere near as prolific as iPhone apps (by a long shot), there are still unanswered questions about whether or not these apps will work on the new phones.  The speculation is that they wont, although Microsoft up until now hasnt said either way, with lots of details about Windows Phone 7 Series still to come.

However in an article posted today in Dutch language Tweakers.net, Martin Sonneveld from Microsoft Netherlands seems to indicate that older apps may work with Windows Phone 7 Series, with some modification:

Applications that are created for Windows Mobile 6 may be made compatible with Windows Phone 7 series. However, it is the interface of the new mobile OS apps, which need to be adapted.

"The interface of Windows Phone 7 Series is totally different, which in any case something should happen to the applications before they are suitable for Windows Phone 7 Series," says Martin Sonneveld Microsoft Netherlands against tweakers.NET. It is still unclear how developers can use the interface can translate their applications to the new version of Windows Mobile: Microsoft talks until next month, at its own developers event Mix2010 about how applications can be developed and distributed for the new OS. You can also confirm or Mr Sonneveld, not with older applications running on Windows customizations Phone 7 series.

(Translation by Microsoft Translator.  Original Here)

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