Firefox for Windows Phone 7 Development stopped

March 23, 2010 in Microsoft

Mozilla seems to be unhappy with Microsoft and the company’s limitations when it comes down to building native applications for its next-generation Windows mobile platform. Although it has so far produced a steady stream of testing builds of Fennec for Windows Mobile, the development efforts associated with Firefox for Windows Phone 7 have been put on hold. Stuart Parmenter, the Mobile Team technical lead, Mozilla Corporation, indicated that the time-out might very well end up being indefinite, and that, essentially, the ball was in Microsoft’s court.

“While we think Windows Phone 7 looks interesting and has the potential to do well in the market, Microsoft has unfortunately decided to close off development to native applications. Because of this, we won’t be able to provide Firefox for Windows Phone 7 at this time. Given that Microsoft is staking their future in mobile on Windows Mobile 7 (not 6.5) and because we don’t know if or when Microsoft will release a native development kit, we are putting our Windows Mobile development on hold,” Parmenter stated.

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