Windows Mobile has a well-deserved reputation for being a pain in the butt to use, particularly when compared to the elegant operating system on Apple’s iPhone. Fortunately, hope appears to be on the horizon.
Details have been leaking out about WM 6.1, which should hit the street soon with improvements such as threaded text-message conversations. Far more ambitious improvements apparently await in WM 7 and WM 8.
Microsoft has briefed some technology writers about the WM road map. Those writers are sworn to secrecy about the specifics, but the lead bloggers from both Engadget and Gizmodo hint that good things are on the way.
Here’s hoping they’re right.
The current version of Windows Mobile actually allows users to do an incredible amount with their smart phones. Indeed, you can do almost anything you can do on a regular computer; you just can’t do it easily.
An elegant version of WM would be a big step toward striking the word cellphone from America’s vocabulary and replacing it with handheld, the term that geeks use for tiny computers.
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