Microsoft’s week involved the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas and the detailing of its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone platform for developers, along with an announced virtualization partnership with Citrix Systems. While Windows Phone 7 Series will lack backward compatibility with Windows Mobile, Microsoft feels the upcoming devices’ application-development platform and consumer sheen will attract developers and consumers in equal measure. In addition to Microsofts advances in those areas, the company also faces two patent-infringement lawsuits in the same East Texas court that gave it so much trouble in 2009.
– Microsofts week centered on the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas and more revelations about the Windows Phone 7 Series, as Microsoft seeks to draw developers to the upcoming smartphone platform.
If nothing else, Windows Phone 7 Series represents a clean break from Microsofts past in the smartphone ar…