We are employees, individuals, and citizens. Windows Phone 7 provides, and allows the construction of, mobile solutions that enable these personas to coexist effectively within one device experience. The smart, new Windows Phone 7 user interface provides seamless access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and other familiar tools via the new Microsoft Office Hub, while the Microsoft SharePoint Workspace client supports enhanced collaboration through offline document access, editing, and syncing. Integrating these productivity tools with email, calendar, and contacts capabilities makes Windows Phone 7 a unified, rich mobile experience for both business and personal functions.

Windows Phone 7 is the only phone that integrates familiar Microsoft Office business applications with an intuitive, easy mobile experience. You can view and edit Microsoft Office documents on Windows Phone 7 and then use Microsoft Office Hub to synchronize the documents on SharePoint Server. Outlook Mobile allows you to easily sort, scan, and manage your work, along with your personal email and calendars.

Leveraging their existing skills and knowledge of Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight, XNA Framework, and Microsoft Expression Blend, designers and developers can build complex, robust applications for Windows Phone 7 based on consistent hardware specs. In addition, a comprehensive new development toolkit is now available, free of charge, to support the creation of end-user experiences that are uniquely optimized for the mobile environment. Through the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), development for Windows Phone 7 is cloud ready or can be combined with a client-based approach. And delivering applications to end users is smooth and easy via the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Windows Phone 7 navigates a happy middle path between too few and too many choices, providing baseline capabilities that help guarantee a high level of application compatibility from device to device. And it does so while helping to ensure that developers needn’t contend with unmanaged device proliferation, so they can focus on creating applications they know will be effective.

Security is paramount in any mobile device, and Windows Phone 7 builds on a proven array of security technologies, beginning with 128- to 256-bit SSL encryption and security-enhanced access to on-premises applications and network resources using Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). Windows Phone 7 supports IT-managed Exchange ActiveSync policies for passwords, remote wipe capabilities, and other safeguards. And Windows Phone Marketplace provides certification and verification of applications and content to help ensure integrity and reliability.