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New boss of Windows Mobile talks up Windows Mobile at Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 July 11, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Andy Lees is a Brit, who replaced Pieter Knook and is now the new top manager at Microsoft responsible for Windows Mobile. Brits are appreciated in interational organizations because they can talk, talk a lot - after all English is their native language that they originated - but when it comes to doing, probably Germans are better... 
Andy Lees talks mainly about how Windows Mobile sold more units than iPhone, what is a bit unfair considering that global deployment of iPhone starts today and previously it was limited to few markets only... but what worries us a lot is that previously Microsoft was saying that new Internet Explorer with desktop rendering engine and Flash is coming "by the end of the year 2008" and now Andy Lees says "in six months" (what may mean: in 2009!): So, what are people using these devices for? Well, of course, consumers want to use the devices to be able to do things like to access the Internet. That's why we're putting Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Mobile where we'll complete that in the next six months, and that's so that you get the full PC experience on a mobile device. That's not a cut-down browser; it's the full IE 6. We'll continue to innovate and put new versions on that as we increase our pace of innovation on Windows Mobile. That's important because it means that you'll be able to do things like AJAX-based applications and things that you can't do on any device. You can't do that on an iPhone, you can't do that on a Nokia device, you can't do that on a Google device, because of the fact that it's exactly the same PC browser that is available on the mobile device. To learn more visit full transcript of the remarks of Andy Lees or view related webcast. Conclusion: enough of promises! We need features in Windows Mobile: new Internet browser with Flash, finger-based navigation for phones with touch-screen, and we need support for multitouch. At the end it all boils down to multitouch: if Windows Mobile 7 will not have support for multitouch then it will fail.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 5 Comments ]
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