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People are not complaining that smartphone apps cannot be resold, and you're even OK with it to have to buy the same app from the same publisher again when you switch operating system. 

That's the consequence when the distribution channel becomes digital-only and you have DRM to protect the publisher's assets.

The entertainment industry wishes it to see it as a consumable like food. Second hand food anyone?

Anyone remember Visual Interdev? Building up your HTML elements in VB opposed to databinding nowadays is a night and day difference!

@DeathByVisualStudio: you would be making more of a point if you actually had a Windows Phone and were heavily dependent on Facebook to maintain your busy social life...

Xbox 4k?

99 or 599 for a new laptop... tempting...
Don't be too upset, you can still tinker a lot with the WP7 emulator, and with the Async BCL RTM'ed recently you can even use async. One advice: use a portable class library for your business logic. With Weerplaza.nl I'm able to release WP7, WP8 and W8 versions of the app with 90% code sharing.

BTW, wouldn't BizSpark be an option for you?

Good luck,
Peter

Shouldn't there be an early adopter beta program like Microsoft Connect, just for Windows Phone? I wouldn't mind adding a company app account/extra entry in the store

Would this be a workaround?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10777/how-to-add-any-pop3-email-account-to-hotmail/

With a serious tooth pain, he had to miss a couple of sessions in the Hague, get well soon

I hope it's not reliability issues with the 920's gyroscope