Someone who was reviewing Windows Phone and talking about Windows 7 Slates (multi-touch tablets, think Apple iPad).. was suggesting that the Windows Phone 7 experience wasn’t that of the of the regular Windows 7 operating system..

Well here’s an example of why this just doesn’t hold water. Here’s the same TopHat demo in Visual Studio (as an XNA project) the same is true for .NET apps with WPF/Silverlight that are developing apps for Windows Phone. Note I have 3 projects here, the same content and and code powers the PC XNA Game Demo, the Windows Phone Demo, and the X-Box 360. Microsoft lets you target all three platforms with the same code..

Expression Blend (Win7/WPF Desktop, Silverlight Web and Out of Browser)

Free Expression Blend 4 Windows Phone

Visual Studio 2010 and VS2010 for Windows Phone