Windows Mobile 7 Gets Confirmed by Microsoft

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As much as some Windows Mobile lovers will defend their Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets I imagine they’re waiting for the real thing just as much as the rest of us. Windows Mobile 7 is everyone’s fantasy, including Microsoft. Redmond has admitted in the past that it would have liked to have Windows Mobile 7 out sooner but that wasn’t possible.

I am not saying I’ll go for a Windows Mobile 7 phone the moment they become available but I certainly am more interested in the next mobile OS from Microsoft. And I dare to say that Microsoft’s future OS version will be a spectacular one. Redmond can’t afford not to have a winner mobile platform. Android is more and more popular, iPhones and BlackBerry handsets are dominating the smartphone business and even Samsung is cooking its own mobile OS. Let’s not forget that other major players like Nokia and Palm are fixing and tweaking their operating systems so with all that in mind I’ll say it again: Windows Mobile 7 has to be spectacular.

The new Windows Mobile version is supposed to arrive at the MIX 2010 conference net March but we expect to hear more about the new OS early next year. The launch date has been confirmed by Microsoft Office Vice President Kurt Delbene, which is a little strange. You’d normally expect a guy like Steve Ballmer to make such an announcement.

What’s even more interesting is that Microsoft has posted a shot of the Windows Mobile new interface on the Office 2010 beta site and the pictures look similar with what we’ve seen around the Internet earlier this year.

Did Microsoft let everything slip out by mistake or was this a well coordinated “attack”? As much as I do believe that Microsoft happens to make various mistakes, like Windows Vista for example, I think that this confirmation has been intentionally made. There’s too much talk about Android and other mobile OS these days and Windows Mobile is barely noticeable despite’s Microsoft’s efforts to build buzz around it and around the recently tuned Marketplace. Did it work? Well everyone will be talking about Windows Mobile 7 today, won’t they?

So, Microsoft, we expect to be dazzled, so make sure that your Windows Mobile 7 OS is spectacular!