Multitasking on Windows Phone and multitasking on PC are totally different things. When it comes to multitasking on PC, developers/end-users have luxury of humungous amount of processing power and memory. Where as on mobile device, there are restrictions. Firstly, Windows Phone 7 doesn't support multitasking. Which means third-party applications [i.e. applications developed by you and I] will not run in background.
If end-user doesn't see any app UI on his device, then that application is not running. Period. The only applications which may run in background were developed by Microsoft, which are kind of 'first party' applications e.g. Zune media player, built-in Alarm and Reminders application. Which means, as of now, developers can't write full blown media-players, location based services, alarm or reminder applications. Because they will be of no use if they are not running in background.
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