Windows Phone 7 "Jailbreak" Process Ready for the Holidays

Users of the old Windows Mobile phones (and the Microsoft mobile platforms that preceded them) don’t need to worry or even think about concepts like “jailbreaking.” That is something for iPhone owners or Android owners (“root”) a phone who want to install apps that break the rules of acessing the platform (private APIs and the like).

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, however, joins Android and iPhone in locking down the platform. Like the iPhone, Windows Phone apps can only be obtained and installed from one source – Microsoft’s Marketplace.

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