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Is it compatible with Windows 7? To run the Program Compatibility troubleshooter 1. Thanks and regards, Fouzan — Microsoft support. How satisfied are you with this reply? Is it just too old to do that? Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help.

Thanks for your feedback. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 2. Report abuse. The iPhone is still the one to beat in terms of ease of use, but in a competition for simplicity between Android and Windows Phone 7, we'd say the latter would win.

Along the same lines, there's definitely something to Microsoft's decision to crack down on third-party customization. From the very beginning, the company said it wanted to provide a consist end-user experience regardless of the phone or provider, and in the long run this will help make the transition easier as users switch devices or move carriers.

This should also prevent delays when pushing out software updates, since each custom UI doesn't have to go through testing to ensure it works with the new software. OEMs and carriers also still have the opportunity to add their customizations. It's just a more subtle approach. The HTC Hub also highlights some the company's featured apps. Meanwhile, Samsung offers a Now hub on the Focus, which acts similarly to the Happenings Now widget on the Galaxy S Android devices by providing weather info and news and stocks updates.

Contacts Like many other smartphones, Windows Phone 7 can merge contact information from different e-mail accounts and social networking sites, but it's a bit limited in scope and capabilities right now. The OS draws from Facebook, Windows Live, Exchange, and your other e-mail accounts for contact data, and after setting up your device with these accounts, the phone immediately pulls in contact information.

Previously, there was no way to filter the contacts--it was all or nothing--but Microsoft added a feature that allows you to now exclude Facebook contacts that don't exist in your other synced accounts e. The syncing process was painless and happened in the background, but we ended up with numerous duplicates for the same contact. It's easy enough to link profiles, but with the number of duplicates we had, it got to be quite tedious and annoying.

As we briefly mentioned in the Navigation section, the People hub also provides real-time updates to your friends' Facebook statuses, and allows you to quickly like or add a comment if you wish. You can easily update your own by tapping on your individual card from the contacts list. For the most part, you can access most of the information you would see on Facebook from within the People hub, but if something requires you to go outside the hub, you will have to sign back into your account via the browser, as the dedicated Facebook app isn't available yet.

One other notable omission that might irk a lot of people is the lack of Twitter integration. This isn't to say it won't be offered in the future, but it's not supported at launch.

It'd also be nice to have a Favorite category in the People hub. The Recent list doesn't quite cut it. For most personal accounts, setup is a simple matter of entering your log-in ID and password, and we were able to sync up our Windows Live and Gmail accounts in a matter of seconds. Setting up Outlook requires a little more information, such as server and domain info, but again, we didn't encounter any problems here.

We should note that you don't have to have a Windows Live ID to start using the phone, but if you want to access the Marketplace or Xbox Live, it is required, so you'll most likely want to create one or log in, for access to apps at the very least. This will also back up your phone's data to windowsphone. Windows Phone 7 doesn't offer a combined in-box; a separate in-box is set up for each of your accounts. The e-mail experience is the same regardless of which client you're using, and it's strikingly simple in appearance, though that isn't a reflection of the app's capabilities.

Messages are filtered by all, unread, flagged, or urgent, and also features a robust search function that can find keywords within the text of the message or within the e-mail fields. It's also a treat that you can simply tap to the left of a message s and press the small trash icon at the bottom to delete it.

You can configure the device to sync e-mail at different time intervals, ranging from manually to as items arrive. We received our messages as they arrived, sometimes before they even hit our real in-box. We didn't have any issues downloading attachments, but be aware that initially you have to manually sync your folders. Though you don't get a unified in-box, you do get a combined calendar, with appointments color-coded by account.

The calendar app provides views by agenda, day, and month, with a similarly clean and minimalist view as e-mail. There is no week view, however. Microsoft said it didn't find it necessary, but we think it would've been a helpful, especially as you're preparing for the work week.

You can also easily create new appointments using the contextual toolbar at the bottom of the screen, and set such options as a reminder, occurrence, and status, but we weren't able to access our corporate directory to add attendees--only those listed in our contacts list.

If you receive a meeting request, there are simple icons for accepting, declining, or responding to invites, and there's even an option to send a note to all the meeting attendees if you're running late.

Messaging and keyboard There's not much to say about the text and multimedia messaging capabilities, other than it works and is easy to use. You also get a threaded chat view, and MMS are presented inline. As we're quickly realizing with Windows Phone 7, you really shouldn't judge anything by looks because even though the keyboard appears to be a cramped mess--particularly in portrait mode--it's actually quite accurate and fast and offers predictive text.

It's also smart in the sense that when entering text in an e-mail's To field or a Web address, the keyboard provides a. Microsoft said third-party keyboards a la Swype will not be supported by Windows Phone 7. Office support Similar to Exchange, we expect good integration between the Microsoft Office Suite and Windows Phone 7, and the elements are certainly there. You can view, edit, and create Word and Excel documents, whereas PowerPoint files are limited to just view and edit.

We downloaded Word and Excel attachments from our e-mail and were quite happy with how documents were displayed with original formatting. However, editing options are pretty much limited to formatting, highlighting, and changing font color. Microsoft is working on bringing this basic functionality to Windows Phone in the near future, but at launch, you'll be without.

The note-taking app is quite useful; you can add photos and recorded audio clips, as well as bulleted or numbered lists to notes. You can pin notes to the Start page, e-mail them, or sync them to your Windows Live account, so you can access them via the Web later on.

Finally, if your company uses SharePoint Server for storing documents to share and edit, you can access them by entering the URL.

Web browser Mobile Web is such a huge part of smartphones nowadays, and fortunately, Windows Phone 7 provides a relatively good browsing experience, certainly much improved from Windows Mobile. The Internet Explorer browser offers support for up to six windows and thumbnail views of all open pages, so you can easily toggle back and forth.

You can also bookmark sites, and if you feel like it, you can pin pages to the Start screen for easier access. Zooming can be handled either by using the pinch-to-zoom gesture or by double-tapping the screen. Both are smooth and zippy, but there's a slight delay when re-rendering text and images. Other available tools and settings include keyword search, the ability to share links, and page suggestions by Bing.

Now, for the bad news. As of right now, there's no support for Flash, Silverlight, or HTML5, so despite taking several steps forward, Windows Phone 7's also several steps behind the competitors. Please note this confirmation id on a peace of paper or on your computer use the Notepad application.

Since you might type it wrong for the first time. On the phone you can listen the confirmation id again and again and I can suggest you to select the listen again option until your Windows 7 activation is completed.

Please note that the above Windows 7 activation wizard screen displays activation phone numbers for United States. Please click on the links for activation phones for United Kingdom , activation phone numbers for Australia , for Canada , for France , for India , for activation phone numbers for Turkey. You can find more phone numbers for other countries on the wizard screens. After you type the Confirmation Id into the approtiate input boxes, the Next button will enable for you to select.

After you click the Next button, Windows will match the installation id of the system and the confirmation id from your input and will complete the activation if the matching is successful. Activation helps verify that your copy of Windows is genuine. With a genuine copy of Windows 7, you are eligible to receive all available updates and product support from Microsoft.