What You Can Expect from Windows Mobile 6.5 Next Month

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Andrew Lees, Microsoft's dude in allegation of cellphone software told the NY Times in so abounding words what you can apprehend from Windows Adaptable 6.5 at Adaptable World Congress next month. Some's good, some's clueless.


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What we're assured to see next month is Windows Adaptable 6.5, with a new UI, and the admission of Microsoft's billow syncing services, codenamed SkyBox. Lees askance accepted a lot of that, and says they get that humans wish to do added with their phones than extend their soul-killing jobs accomplished the acerbic boundaries amid plan and home: “We wish aswell to do animal things like photos, music, communications, IM, texting and amusing networking.”


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He talks in the abstract, but this seems like an archetype of what SkyBox will do on a Windows Adaptable phone: "When you yield a account it should automagically access on your PC and be in the cloud. I should be able to fix the red eye on the PC and accept it automagically go aback and fix the red eye everywhere else.” Most of the accompany casework are traveling to be chargeless (take that, MobileMe) but some you'll accept to pay for: “I don’t anticipate anyone is traveling to accomplish money on synchronizing data,” says Lees. “It is artlessly what humans will appear to expect.”

Microsoft acutely gets it, in those few respects—syncing abstracts should be allotment of the package, and humans wish to do all kinds of ball being with their buzz easily. So the actuality that their action to accomplish money is to accumulate authoritative a accumulation by charging accouterments makers a authorization fee for Windows seems hardly anachronistic, accustomed the accepted adaptable environment. His acknowledgment to why companies (and people) will aces Windows Adaptable over the actual chargeless Android just sounds appreciably out of touch:

“They are traveling to attending about at what their options are and say ‘Is accessible antecedent traveling to do all the things I charge to do to attempt with Windows Mobile?’” he said. “Is it traveling to actualize the amusing experience, the e-mail acquaintance and all the added adventures humans want?”

As a amount of fact, Android does all of those things appreciably well. But maybe Windows Adaptable will draft our skirts up anyhow next month. I hope. Zunephone! [Bits]

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