Last night at MIX10 held at Las Vegas Microsoft announced its developer story for the Windows Phone 7 Series.

If you didn’t catch the keynote last night you can watch it MIX10 Keynote

A quick summary:

  • Silverlight 4 is now on RC. Final build will be out next month
  • Silverlight on 60% of all internet connected devices
  • Expression Blend 4 preview out. Free upgrade to Expression 3 owners.
  • Windows Phone 7 uses Silverlight and XNA.
  • Uses the same Silverlight you know on the web.
  • Uses Visual Studio 2010 with free tools.
  • Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone
  • Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone
  • XNA for Windows Phone
  • Same XNA platform for PC, Phone and Xbox
Tonight will be another big night full of releases. Hope to see you there!

Chris was our man on the street reporting live from Vegas.

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