Microsoft and Google are on the verge of evolving their face-off, signaling a migration of the focus from the Internet to the operating systems. Speculations indicate that the Windows platform is about to be introduced to its latest rival on the mobile device market. There has been a consistent volume of rumors circulating around a Google project designed to be synonymous with the debut of the Mountain View search giant on the mobile market. However, such a scenario has failed to materialize as far. But the latest wave of rumors reveal that Google has reached the final stages with a mobile operating system and that the mobile device platform will be unveiled in September.

The strongest argument pointing to a Google mobile operating system is the acquisition of Android, a mobile software company, back in 2005. In this context, Google will become the underdog of the mobile platform industry. A market in which even Microsoft is not a household name. The Redmond company has currently evolved its Windows Mobile operating system to version 6. Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software was introduced at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, on February 12, 2007.

Windows Mobile 6 was designed to seamlessly integrate with the latest Microsoft client operating system, Windows Vista, to take advantage of the PC-like capabilities offered by Office Outlook, Office Word, Office Excel and Office PowerPoint, and also to benefit from infrastructures running Exchange Server 2007. Delivered as an upgrade to Windows Mobile 5, version 6 came to a market where Microsoft is still far from the dominant position. In fact, Windows Mobile trails Linux and Symbian OS, and accounts for approximately 5% of the mobile operating system market.

This would make a potential Google platform for mobile devices a valid competitor for Windows Mobile. The Mountain View company turned to Linux for its mobile operating system, and is already shopping the product around to mobile device manufacturers.