Windows Mobile 7

[Mattt]

Feb 15th should see Microsoft's new effort. I'm interested to see how they've moved things on - and whether it will compete with iPhone OS and Android?

[clonmult]

Microsoft move things on?

I hope they have, as competition is good in the market, but from CE2 to WM6.1 they barely made any UI changes, and that was where they needed changes.

If there's still a start button in WM7, then its off to the wrong start right away.

[Tycho]

MS have a hell of a job to catch up, never mind improve things. The WM6.5 update looked nice until you got into the more advanced parts of the system and then you got the same menus as WinCE etc which was there from when MS wanted a portable version of Windows rather than a small screen interface.

[gamefreaks]

Microsoft need to pull their finger out. Windows Mobile 7 is their last chance to do it.

Windows Marketplace has so far been a disaster. They should have had this in place in 2003, so why it has taken this long I don't understand.

Microsoft need to impliment minimum hardware standards starting with Windows 7. At the very least every Windows Mobile 7 device should have a 640x480 screen, Multitouch and Hardware Accelerated Direct Draw, Direct3d and OpenGL-ES drivers.

Without this, Windows Mobile is going nowhere.

[Viper_Larry]

Here's a sneak preview courtesy of PaulOckenden (Twitter) from the MWC this morning. Will be revealed @ 2pm

[clonmult]

I've seen the video.

It looks like its trying too hard to be clever. Not yet convinced. It could be absolutely fantastic, but I'll wait.

At least the Symbian^3 demo looked clean and sensible, if a little Apple like.

[Junior Bianno]

Here's more details - looks pretty nice

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/72...

"Microsoft said that Windows Phone 7 Series devices would be available at the end of the year a variety of handset makers, including Samsung, LG and HTC."

Not available until the end of the year? That is way too far in the future for them to be announcing that now. I think could design a new OS in my back bedroom in that time. FAIL

[cptsideways]

It'll be more complicated than before, with the same old features just buried in a new shell that takes longer than the old, with a new & different interface for every option. I very much doubt anything is simpler, quicker or easier.

I 'm finding ms stuff appears increasingly designed by different people in different rooms who never communicate to get a coherant & common interface for each application.

[clonmult]

cptsideways said:

It'll be more complicated than before, with the same old features just buried in a new shell that takes longer than the old, with a new & different interface for every option. I very much doubt anything is simpler, quicker or easier.

I 'm finding ms stuff appears increasingly designed by different people in different rooms who never communicate to get a coherant & common interface for each application.

Thats the way microsoft tends to work. They also tend to have two or more teams working on competing products.

This revised interface seems to be very much based around social networking - facebook/twitter integration. Great for kids, but utterly useless for corporates who are the primary buyer of windows mobile products.

And if what I've read is true, Microsoft are dictating hardware specs (good) and also dictating that there will be no front ends allowed (ie. HTC TouchFlo, etc.) - which is a bad move.

They're trying to go head to head with Apple, but ignoring their current user base.

[lestag]

clonmult said:

And if what I've read is true, Microsoft are dictating hardware specs (good) and also dictating that there will be no front ends allowed (ie. HTC TouchFlo, etc.) - which is a bad move.

thats VERY bad, if true, the HTC interface(s) are GREAT!

Edited by lestag on Tuesday 16th February 08:33