From the “Well, Duh…” file.  This InfoWorld articletalks about enterprises complaining about FireFox going to a rapid browser update program and the issues of having FireFox 4 already be end of life.  I laugh when I hear people complain about Microsoft updating software to fast when you have FireFox cranking them out pretty quickly and Google putting Chrome on the hamster treadmill.  There are two different software ecosystems – one that adopts very slowly and one that only cares about shiny balls.

I was able to put the new Windows Phone 7.1 “Mango” tools through their paces and finally got an app I had wanted to write for a while into the marketplace.  Taxi Meter is an app that let’s you “play taxi” and charge based on things like time, distance, etc.  It wasn’t a complicated app to write, but I had been putting it off for a while because it made heavy use of the GPS and working with the GPS in the “old” tools was a pain.

The new Mango tools, with the Location emulator, made it a snap!  Impressive and very easy to use.  I haven’t had a chance to play with the Accelerometer emulator yet, but it appears to be just as easy based on the demos I have seen.  WP7 has the best dev tools on the planet!

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