“Sales of Windows Mobile 6.5 have been flat since the platform was launched in the fourth quarter of 2009, pushing Microsoft to bring forward Windows Mobile 6.6, which supports capacitive touchscreens, the sources noted,” Daniel Shen and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“However, Microsoft may now delay the launch of Windows Mobile 7 to 2011, instead of the end of 2010 as originally planned, the sources indicated,” Shen and Shen report.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Gabriel B.” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Why bother? It’s too late.
Nothing new here! Move along.
Leave it to Micoshaft to delay an is release…
“Why bother? It’s too late.”
Its more than that – they never updated my three WinMob phone’s OS versions even once (don’t blame the carrier, MS could have done it), so why would I trust them to update this one? Updated to an iPhone last year and had a number of improvements already. So it will take many more years for MS to win my trust back.
I don’t know why they even bother, Windows mobile is dead and should be scraped with the Zune thing!
Explanation is simple.
Microsoft will need some extra time to copy iPhone OS 4 features when it comes out.
In Micro$oft speak 2011 is “imminent.”
I’m waiting for MS to release WinMo 6.6.6.
Is windows mobile 7 the new Vista? We’ll have it next year. No, the year after that. No, how about the year after next?
@ Mac George: I’m waiting for MS to release WinMo 6.6.6.
Yes, in another dated bid for relevance, Microsoft will be borrowing their versioning scheme from the original ’90s version of DOOM…
It’s called shutting the gate after the nag of a horse has wandered out, fell over and died of old age about three years ago. *Yawn*
Good lord, they are so sad!!!
@ Rob
> Microsoft will need some extra time to copy iPhone OS 4 features when it comes out.
I don’t think that’s the reason for the delay; MS has plenty left to copy, even from iPhone OS 1.0.
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So Microsoft are late with a major release of WinMo and will, instead, issue a minor maintenance/feature release to “strengthen its competitiveness against iPhone- and Android-based platforms”.
Firstly, that’s hardly a new strategy for Microsoft: “pre-announce, discover problem, delay” has been par for the course for many, many years.
Secondly, strengthening WinMo’s competitiveness against anything (including cans connected with waxed string) is going to take more than adding support for capacitive touchscreens in an interim point release. Given that you can make WinMo freeze on some phones simply by opening and closing the clamshell/slider mechanism several times in a ten-second window (something I do people’s phones at parties, just for a giggle), I’d argue that the platform may have some more serious problems.
MCCFR,
You must be just a riot at parties.
WM 6.6 will be soooooo much better…. trust me!!
Big Als MBP…
When people flash their WinMo smartphones at me and start with “Apple stuff is crap and overpriced”, they are – you’ll agree – asking for it.
Gotta love the idiot MacNut comments. Go back to your liberal arts class, and when you’re done you can get a job fetching coffee for your boss.