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Re:Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed, will have Windows 8 inte... by brudgers on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:33PM (#3544813)
Microsoft sees mobile devices as computers and Microsoft Research is working on a practical IDE for them via TouchDevelop which gives access to most phone features:

http://www.touchdevelop.com/help/api

There appears to be a vision of a commodity phone running Windows Phone as the "computer on every desk" for the developing world - it's probably no accident that Microsoft teamed up with Nokia.

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Re:Windows Phone 8 Apollo detailed, will have Windows 8 inte... by freehunter on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:55PM (#3544906)
TouchDevelop is powerful as hell. It's not VC++ by any means, but you can access all of the phones features and data, and develop quite complex applications without actually typing any code. Putting that into Windows 8 Desktop would be a great move, and allowing those scripts into the Marketplace (or someplace where they can be sold and marketed) would be even better. Right now there is a repository for the scripts, but it's sorely lacking in features compared to the Marketplace.
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