Third party tiles for Windows Mobility Center

Since there's more developers here than anywhere else I know I think some of you should look into developing tiles for Vista's Windows Mobility Center.

Until yesterday Microsoft has 'allowed' only original equipment manufacturers to produce these WMC tiles because

"so random applications don’t author and install their own tiles into the mobiitity center, thereby both diluting it’s value/focus"

But I reckon that should be a choice up to users on which if any tiles they want to install.

After a lot of reverse engineering and research, Rafael Rivera Jr. has finally figured out how it is done. Yesterday he posted what we believe is the world's first non-OEM third-party tile (not that it really means much).

Instructions to download and install are on my site.

On top of that, Rafael has also (re)published Microsoft's 47-page documentation on how to build tiles which was only previously found in the obnoxiously difficult to access Vista OPK.

So what we have now is a very basic "static" tile. The next step is to make a "dynamic" tile which is what most of the Microsoft ones are. As well, Rafael is planning to make a "third-party tiles manager" to help users manage, install and uninstall these third party tiles in the style of the Sidebar Gadgets manager.

I reckon some of you should try to come up with some interesting concepts for new WMC tiles keeping in mind what it is designed for and who is most likely to use it (mobile users).