14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Mobile 6.5 is the next flavor of a mobile platform the Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. is set to push to the market on October 6. Compared to the earlier versions of the Operating system, the new one should deliver a wide range of improvements, especially on the user interface side, though much bigger changes are expected to surface as soon as the next-generation Windows Mobile 7 reaches the market in about a year from now.
While the mobile platform is moving towards the better, it seems that the company's CEO Steve Ballmer is not happy with how things are with it. According to some of the latest news on the Internet, Ballmer stated recently at a Venture Capital Summit at Mountain View, in front of around 200 attendees, that he wished Windows Mobile 7 was already released on the market.
The company is set to bring its mobile client in line with other appealing operating systems available on the market today, and to make it highly competitive at the same time, but Ballmer's words suggest that things could have already been pushed forward. “[Ballmer] wishes they had already launched WM7. They completely revamped the team,” is what Pjozefak, a venture capitalist, tweeted from the summit, WMPoweruser reports.
However, the company seems set to not make the same mistakes in the future. Another attendee, Beninato, tweeted “We’ve pumped in some new talent” and “This will not happen again” as being Ballmer's words. The company has been already reported to have deployed a large number of engineers to work on the development of Windows Mobile 7, as it attempts to turn it into what Windows 7 is said to be: the next great step into the evolution of the platform.
What will actually come along with Windows Mobile 7 hasn't been unveiled for the time being, but we already know that more services will make their way to the OS, as well as a series of new technologies, like Silverlight. With some reports suggesting that hardware requirements for the handsets to run under the platform have already been put in place, and others pointing towards great touch and non-touch gesture capabilities, things might turn out just great in the end.