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Today Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7 series a World Mobile Congress 2010, in Barcelona. With this new phone series Microsoft is finally changing the entire design from the ground up. Everything from look and feel to the code behind it, it’s all brand new. Hopefully this is just the beginning and Microsoft will one again be a serious competitor against the other makers out there. The completely altered home screen now tightly integrates with XBox Live and Zune. New and improved social networking tools. Gone is the Today screen we have all grown to hate, now replaced with “tiles” which scroll vertically which can be customized into quick launches, links to contacts, or self contained widgets.

The look as been radically changed and now more looks like the popular Zune HD experience. The OS is heavily dependent on social networking, providing integrated contact pages which show status updates from multiple services and allow fast jumps to richer cloud content (such as photo galleries). The Xbox integration will include LIVE games, avatars, and profiles, while the Zune end of things appears to be a carbon copy of the standalone device’s features (including FM radio).

Unlike before with Windows Phone 7 Microsoft is setting rigid requirements for the hardware. A Specific CPU,  speed, aspect ratio, resolution, memory, and even button configuration. So no more Sense or other customizations like that. I’m sure when the first phones start rolling out they will all look and feel pretty much the same, so there will be a single Windows Phone identity.