Microsoft has developers given permission for a tool, which allows users outside the Marketplace for apps on their device. The ontwikkelaarsgroep Chevron will ask money for the tool.
The ChevronWP7 tool will come out soon, but an exact date of release is not yet published. Chevron, a joint venture between three developers, that users via PayPal a small amount for them the tool can use.
The past few months have been manufacturers and software makers and their policies towards developers that unauthorized software wish to release for smartphones is more flexible. So it was Sony Ericsson with a bootloader-unlocker, sent Samsung developers a free device to a custom rom and HTC the security of its bootloaders to pick up. Microsoft is the first maker of an operating system that gives permission for a ‘jailbreaktool’.
ChevronWP7 was shortly after the release of Windows Phone 7 to download. The tool is still to be found through forums, but the developers have himself taken off. The tool makes it possible for the unit to unlock, as developers can. That way, apps can be on the device to be set that are not in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
