Study Finds Growing Developer Interest in Windows Phone 7
18.05.12
The recent partnership between Nokia and Microsoft was the top reason given for the growing level of interest by respondents located in Europe and Asia. In North America, respondents cited the upcoming integration with Windows 8 as the No. 1 reason for the interest.
This difference in reasoning could be due to the fact that Nokia's Windows Phone 7 line will be premiering overseas first, with a U.S. release still unannounced.
This jump in developer interest for the Windows Phone 7 platform puts it in fourth, behind iOS (91 percent interest), Android OS (83 percent interest) and HTML 5 Mobile Web (66 percent interest). However, unlike the growing interest in Microsoft's mobile OS, the top four platforms saw little change in developer consideration.
Developer interest in Microsoft's Windows Phone platform helped to pull it ahead of the BlackBerry OS platform, which has been on a steep decline, per the survey. The survey showed that 21 percent of respondents were "very interested" in Research in Motion's mobile OS platform. This result was down from its all-time high in 2010 of 42 percent.
Source: Redmondmag.com