Microsoft to Launch Windows Mobile 6.6 Before Windows Mobile 7?

Desire Athow ITProPortal 01/15/2010 02:16

Microsoft Corp.’s smartphone OS offering, Windows Mobile 6.5 has failed to arouse the interest of the millions of smartphone users who instead went for flashier competitors like the iPhone OS, Android and webOS platforms.

Perhaps as a result, Microsoft is planning to roll out a much warranted updated for its Windows Mobile OS platform next month, according to the taiwanese news outlet, Digitimes.

Citing its sources, Digitimes has reported that Microsoft plans to launch Windows Mobile 6.6 (codenamed Maldives) in February 2010 in order to ‘strengthen its competitiveness against iPhone- and Android-based platforms.’

Ever since the Windows Mobile 6.5 was launched in the fourth quarter of 2009, the operating system has been struggling against the ever-increasing popularity of iPhone OS and Android.

The reason for this, according to several industry experts, is that Microsoft’s offering lacks vital touch screen capabilities that are being offered by its competitors.

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