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Summary: The author is a long-time Windows developer and extremely familiar with Visual Studio. He likes the WP7 development environment best. He can deal with Eclipse for Android, but he finds iOS development with Xcode counterintuitive.

I'm not sure the author is really distinguishing between his personal tastes and the actual characteristics of each platform. But his personal tastes are shared by an enormous number of Windows developers, so based on his blog post, I imagine that WP7 will succeed with in-house corporate developers. Interesting.

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Summary: The author is a long-time Windows developer and extremely familiar with Visual Studio.

I don't understand where you got your summary. Looking at his CV - http://home.pacbell.net/eevans2/resume.html - it seems he has a range of experience.

I don't understand where you got your summary.

From this part of the article: I admit that I’ve spent many more years developing in Visual Studio than Eclipse or Xcode...

Based on my own years in Visual Studio, I assumed that this meant Windows development of one flavor or another.

Could be an IntelliJ user like myself (when I'm not using VS, that is).

But his personal tastes are shared by an enormous number of Windows developers, so based on his blog post, I imagine that WP7 will succeed with in-house corporate developers. Interesting.

I'm not sure that's true. To answer that question you'd have to compare WP7 development to MonoTouch. There's no doubt the WP7 development system is more refined but MonoTouch allows you to use C# and a .net like environment while at the same time letting your staff keep the iPhones they already love.

Popularity among corporate developers fits the analysis that WM's main success will be in replacing Blackberries as work-issued phones. Corporations would surely like to have a phone OS that their sysadmins and programmers understand, so they can integrate it well with Exchange and write in-house apps easily.

Small point perhaps but a place I was working at five years ago was developing in house custom apps for their workforce on the old windows mobile phones (probably 5 or 6? can't remember) but they did it because you could dev in .net and well it did what they needed it to do. That was about 400 devices and they were not cheap back then.

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