14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced a while ago that the Redmond software company would release to the market the Windows Mobile 7 operating system sometime next year, probably in the second quarter, and we also know that the platform is supposed to be something totally different from what we've seen up until now with previous versions.
And while at this time the upcoming operating system should only be in its early stages of development, it seems that some screenshots that supposedly represent the interface of said platform have recently emerged into the wild with WMPowerUser.
It is rather hard for us to believe that images with the future operating system could already be available, yet it is possible that Microsoft is testing around different user interface designs, which is a great thing, so these images might be real in a way.
As many of you might already know, the software company has been reported to be working on a brand new platform for mobile phones, one that would change the way we look at WinMo. For that, it seems that the OS will be built from the ground up, and it will also include some brand new features that, for now, are only available with the desktop versions of its products.
The future Windows Mobile 7 is expected to deliver a touch-optimized user interface, among other new features like upgradeability or the inclusion of Microsoft Silverlight technology. There are only a few details regarding the functionality of the platform, yet more info on it should become available by the end of this year, as the OS was reported to be heading towards mobile phone makers sometime in the fourth quarter of the year, while devices running it should come to the market in the spring of 2010, as stated above.
