“Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
“Although Microsoft has not publicly said when to expect Windows Mobile 7, partners who had expected to have a final release in their hands by early next year have been told now that it won’t be ready until the second half of next year, sources told ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News,” Fried reports.
“The delay is a significant blow for the software maker, which has been counting on the next version of Windows Mobile to enable devices that better rival Apple’s iPhone,” Fried reports.
About “Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft has said very little publicly. Ballmer did make reference to it in a speech to enthusiasts in April,” Fried reports. “During the speech, he talked about how Windows Mobile would outsell Apple and RIM during 2008.”
Full article here.
Typical. Send out the clown to boast publicly, then fail dismally. It’s the Microsoft way.
What are those tens of thousands of employees at M$ doing, exactly?
I suspect they got a bright idea and want to be sure to get it in the next release.
The alternative, I suppose, is that they’re botching things again.
Oh, the choices!
MDN “physical” as in “Olivia Newton John”
How is it possible that Apple”s stock would take such a hit when all their forcasts are in line with expectations and they have so much success in so many areas? All the while a crap product like Windows is isnt in the basement of valuation. Wait til 2009 when they say Q1 of 2010 should have most of the bugs out etcetera,etcetera, etcetera
Apple’s stock has made a lot of money for a lot of people. They’ll sell when they need the cash. Apple’s current price does not reflect its potential future. That said, the stock market doesn’t always immediately reflect an accurate assessment of current or future company health.
Things are uncertain. Hold on for the ride.
we need a video of ballmer saying this things followed by what actually happened
DEAR WINDOWS 7,
SEE YOU IN 2011….
MAYBE
LOVE,
MAC OS X 10.7
What about the poor hardware makers who unfortunately hitched their wagons to the M$ turtle (or is that monkey)?
Why bother releasing it at all?
It’s just going to be Vista with another layer of “Touch” capabilities added to it. That will just bog down the already bogged down Windows boxes while tiring out the arms of all the poor saps that buy it and sit there poking around at their laptop monitors as if it’s some new amazing technology (in 2011).
Oops, I didn’t see the “Mobile” part. Oh well… Microsoft is still pathetic.
Shocking, shocking more vaporware. More millions for ads!
Gives them more time to copy the iPhone OS. They will get away with it, since they get away with copying anything Apple does. Its crazy.
Why does MS even bother setting slip dates?
Why does anyone give MS any kind of credibility?
Are the third-party boxers really THAT desperate, that they’ll take any kind of news from MS??
Typical,
Delaying to incorporate “copied” ideas from iPhone and now from gPhone.
Sad…
second half of never
That means second half of 2010, that the earliest.
That means Apple should take the time THEY need to get Snow Leopard spotless WITH all planned features intact, and withOUT driving their software engineers to exhaustion.
I love your one-line take!
It’s hilariously funny and accurate!
Translation:
We are having a difficult time copying Apple’s software. Now we realize with the number of years that we have been stealing their work, we should be able to steal it faster, but we can’t. Sorry.
I believe Ballmer figures on less than a year is left in his CEO life. I think he knows and is saying things like “forever” so that the eventual buyout/golden chute is as plush as can be.
@I think I figured it out
Ballmer is already a billionaire. You’d think enough is enough. He should retire and open up a coffee and donut shop in Seattle.
Among the features widely expected to be part of the release is advanced gesture recognition…
I’ve got a gesture for Microsoft. Although it’s a simple as the number 1.
In related news, Ford CEO Alan Mulally talked about how Ford would be outselling BMW 10-1 in 2008.
“Customers don’t have to sit back and wait,” Rockfeld said. “There’s… …an Apple iPhone?
Sorry – I couldn’t sit back and wait for him to finish the softwa… sentence.
My guess is that Windows 7 dwarfed the iPhone OS by a large margin and with the introduction of iPhone 3G and the App store, Apple threw a wrench into the Windows project. The project probably went back to the drawing board.
Speaking of waiting. I waited for Palm and/or Windows Mobile to engage me before getting rid of my Treo. For 2 years I waited…and waited….and waited. Then the iPhone came out. I wanted one immediately, but didn’t want to spend 500 dollars on it. Additionally, it wasn’t 3G and there was no real software for it.
When the Apple 3G and App store came out I was near the buying point. I wanted the bugs taken out and got that with the recent update. I was ready to buy.
I am now the proud owner of an iPhone 3G and I am never looking back at Palm or Microsoft ever again for a portable device. This is hands down the greatest phone or gadget I have ever owned.
Ok, let’s start the betting pool. Longhorn took seven years to crash and burn, and vista was cobbled together in two years. How long will it take for “windows 7” to get shit-canned and replaced by another warmed-over XP service pack?
I’ll put ten bucks on eight years.
-jcr