Valich reports, “We spoke with representatives from Microsoft, Lenovo, Qualcomm, TI, Nokia, nVidia, HTC and many more and they all had just one message – Windows Mobile 7 is delayed until 2011.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If true, Microsoft might as well delay it until 3011. It’s already way too little and way too late.
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Zune Tang? Where are you? Please put our worried hearts at ease about this terrible news!
The other reason HTC would greatly benefit from owning Palm.
@I’m a PC,
Like ZuneTang’s, your points are moronic. Unlike ZuneTang however, your writing is neither parody nor funny.
@dd
@I’m a PC
You lose all credibility simply for bad math. lol
4 years? 10 – 7 = 4 Sounds like Windows math.
It was a rounding error.
Since Windows Mobile is not going to be part of Microsoft’s future anyways, and it’s not a major part of Microsoft’s present either, I’d say this is non-news.
“I like our strategy. I like it a lot”.
Of course, to like something, that something must exist in the first place.
@MikeK
Developing software is not like building a pyramid. If you need to have your pyramid finished faster, you just place more slaves in to the project. With software is not the same thing. By the time one engineer gets aquatinted with the code, it would kill his productivity in adding others to get confortable with it. Something as complex as a mobile OS, where every part needs to be super optimized for speed and energy consumption, it just makes matters a lot more complex. Now if MS had a good foundation to start with, it would be a deferent story. But basically, they never had said foundation.
Think about this last thing, they had 10 years or more head start on Apple, and now they are behind 3 to 5 years.
Can’t believe they found that many Windows handset vendors to ask!
@ Mac-nugget: Think about this last thing, they had 10 years or more head start on Apple, and now they are behind 3 to 5 years.
Egad… that’s quite astonishing when you put it that way.
MDN take: Spot on! =)
Man, I just read that Boy Genius review of Android today where he savaged it totally. Now Windoze Mobile 7 won’t be out until 2011, 3011, WTF ever, IF ever.
Somewhere in Apple’s software labs somebody’s saying, “Damn, is it THAT hard?” Apparently it IS if you’re not Apple, and you’re not led by Stevie Wonder, er, Steve Jobs.
And now Apple’s gonna pimp-slap M$ back to Redmond with their own tablet idea in a couple of weeks. It occurs to me: Bill Gates was RIGHT about something! Tablets ARE the future, only APPLE’S gonna make ’em! And they’re gonna run OS X, NOT Windoze! “The Road Ahead” indeed.
Visionary leadership at its finest. More like slapstick leadership.
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
It doesn’t matter whether they release it or not. The competition has one focus and that is on Apple’s iPhone. The world rest their hands on Apple. As Apple innovates and leads the industry, the competition copies.
Apple iPhone 3GS: The fastest and the most powerful iPhone yet.
Actually, Roz Ho, who heads the Pink project is an Apple fan, who is undermining WinMo7. As we all know, once Mac, never back, and Roz used to run the Mac Business Unit at MS.
And, regardless of why WM7 is late, the fact is, what mfr wants it? Motorola? That horse left the barn. Palm? They went their own way. Samsung? They are going with their own Linux variant, Bada. Blackberry? No. Apple? No. HTC? They seem to have switched allegiances to Android. LG? Of all the top cellphone mfrs, only LG is left holding out any hope for WM7, and that’s only because at last year’s CES, they announced that they had signed a deal. The rumor is that MS is going to pay them. In other words, MS doesn’t make any money on their mobile OS.
MS’s only hope to make any money in mobile is to get share in mobile search, but they are paying Verizon $500M to put Bing on their cellphones. How exactly is MS going to make money in the post-PC world when they pay to get their software on other people’s hardware?
I forgot Nokia. MS struck a deal with Nokia to load MS’s mobile business suite on Symbian by 2011 or 12. Woohoo! People are getting so excited about that.
You idiots believe everything that is pushed in front of your face? Interesting noone else is quoting this “article” And now your wasting your time arguing over something that is baseless. jesus.
@ KenC
Interesting to have it listed out like that, all the situations where Microsoft is paying others to peddle their software – quite the stark reversal of fortunes compared to the PC market! I wonder how much longer can they afford to keep doing that.
@ a voice of reason (more like a voice of pms)
The article title *is* prefixed with “rumor”, and thankfully we don’t need your permission to discuss such things.
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“Egad… that’s quite astonishing when you put it that way.”
Not really…I mean, if the original Macintosh was the industry game changer and established Apple as the ostensible leader in the computing experience, why is it that 20+ years on Apple still holds a market share in the single digits? That’s what’s astonishing.