Windows Mobile 7 Being Delayed for Competitive Reasons?
Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
It is being reported that Microsoft will delay the release of Windows Mobile version 7 until some time in 2011. This is a significant amount of time to hold off for a release from Redmond since it was expected that they were going to release a new version sometime in the latter half of 2010.
Microsoft recently released an updated Windows Moblie 6.5 in 2009, but it was not a complete makeover of their previous version and does little to compete with the explosion of new device that are being released sporting other mobile operating systems, including Android.
It’s entirely possible that Microsoft has decided to team up with another tech bellweather to try to come up with a possible competitor to Chrome OS and/or Android. I’m starting to think that perhaps Microsoft will concede the mobile phone market to Google, Apple and Research in Motion. They may decide that it is not a profitable market and perhaps they will only focus on netbooks and smartbooks. It makes sense, as their expertise is in computing – not smartphones. It is not outside of expectations that the new Windows Mobile will actually not be for phones at all.
Windows Mobile 6.5 reviews at its release were not impressive. Perhaps Microsoft should just focus on making their computer operating systems better. Because there are soon going to be free operating systems for mobile computing that may fare better than Windows will.
One Response to “Windows Mobile 7 Being Delayed for Competitive Reasons?”
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Paul Griffiths
10. Jan, 2010
Yes, Microsoft decided that the mobile industry which has more than 3 billions devices is unprofitable and that it’s not interesting to compete with Google and Apple. Especially given that they haven’t been in the industry for more than 10 years and don’t have the largest software research budget in the world.
They also decided that the OS industry is already boring and instead decided to focus all their attention on developing a better version of Notepad and Solitaire.
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OMG, and you would think that ChromeSource reports would actually use their brains before they post such stupid news.
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In the meanwhile I’m going back to the 100,000 complaints that have already flooded the Nexus One forums. Direct retail anyone?