14 DAY TRIAL // We learned yesterday that Windows Mobile 7 would head our way in 2010, as Motorola’s CEO Sanjay Jha slipped the info during the company's conference call regarding the financial results for last year. While Microsoft hasn't said anything about the future releases of its operating system, some sources close to the company's plans seem to have said that the development of the platform has been accelerated.
According to the news on the Web, the Redmond software giant will release the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 to manufacturers in April 2009, while the first handsets to sport the platform are expected to reach the market in September this year. Also, the operating system is set to be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month.
As for Windows Mobile 7, the news stated that it should reach testers in November this year, while the first devices to sport the OS should be unveiled in April 2010. Previously, the platform was expected to be released during the second half of the next year, but it seems that the development cycles have been compressed a little. This might come from the fact that the company announced not long ago that there would be fewer handsets running WinMo released to the market, which means that the work relationship between Microsoft and manufacturers has been tightened up a little.
On the other hand, the software company has kept quiet in regard to the features included in both Windows Mobile 6.5 and WinMo 7. Some rumors pointed towards gesture recognition and multi-touch capabilities coming along with the future operating systems, yet nothing else surfaced. At the same time, it seems that the launch of some of the newly announced services from Microsoft will somehow coincide with the release time frame of Windows 7, although the company didn't specify a certain Windows release the services would come to.