Thurrott: Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 too little, too late

“I’m on vacation this week with spotty connectivity, so it’s hard to keep up with the outside world, let along [sic] blog about it. (I’ll be home Friday.) That said, I feel like I should comment on this week’s Windows Mobile news,” Paul Thurrott blogs for Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows Blog.

MacDailyNews Take: Paul obviously names his websites using Microsoft naming conventions. Chuck a couple more words in there, Paul, and you’ll have it just right.

Thurrott continues, “Long story short, this is too little too late… The iPhone will be in its third generation by the time Microsoft’s partners get around to shipping Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones… Windows Mobile 6.5, itself, is an interim solution created on the fly as a response to the iPhone… Microsoft can talk up 20,000 apps all it wants. Virtually none of them are any good. Plus the disparity of Windows Mobile hardware types means that these things won’t work consistently across devices.”

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