Windows Phone 7 Jail breaking Nearing Fast

Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft brought to the market last month, is now one step closer to being jailbroken.

It all started with the discovery of a third-party application available in the Windows Phone Marketplace which is using “native” code, and not the Silverlight-managed code that all other non-Microsoft apps should run. It appears that the said app has unmanaged DLL’s inside the XAP file. Windows Phone 7 device that inherited the ability to run unmanaged code.

Of course, Windows Phone 7 handsets that landed on shelves do not offer sideloading of applications, and having such an application available on the Marketplace is something one can only dream of, so things are only starting to shape up.

However, since root access to the OS is possible, and since the door to future jailbroken application for Windows Phone 7 was opened, we should expect for more on this to emerge pretty soon.

Through jailbroken applications, indie developers will be able to step beyond the Silverlight framework and SDK, and take advantage of more capabilities of the handset, otherwise unavailable for third-party software solutions.

News Source: news.softpedia.com