many trade observers obsessed this week through a report that claimed Microsoft will supply you with two several Mobile versions to cellphone makers during the coming 12 months, they glossed around the actual news. If Digitimes’s August 19 story is correct, Windows Mobile 7 is running about a half-year behind schedule. I know that Microsoft hasn’t provided publicly a ship-date target for Windows Mobile 7. And if there’s no target, no one can claim it’s running late. Right? Microsoft has talked privately about delivering Windows Cellular 7 code to telephone makers this fall, so that new Windows Cellular 7 phones could hit the market around April 2010. I’ve seen a roadmap with those dates, and UX Evangelist blogger Stephen Chapman unearthed a Microsoft slide deck from April 2009 with those same dates. Here’s a slide from that deck, courtesy of Chapman: is citing Taiwanese handset makers claiming that Microsoft is now hoping to get them code in time to get Windows Mobile 7 phones to market by the end of calendar 2010, which will be a year-plus after the stop-gap Windows Cellular 6.5 release hits the market. slip, if it is authentic, contradicts Microsoft officials’ claims at the end of July that the Windows Mobile team has finally started getting the trains running on time. The exact quote,
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