Microsoft isn;t offering up any dates or last product names, but it is breaking with Windows Cellular tradition and is talking about future attributes.It;s not tough to see why Microsoft;s Windows Cellular crew is uncharacteristically prepared to share its roadmap. The Apple iPhone has all of the buzz and, according to a minimum of one marketplace researcher, more of the the Web-browsing market share than Windows Mobile does.Here;s what Microsoft has shown/told a choose handful of bloggers, journalists along with other sundry “influentials.”Coming early next year is Windows Cellular 6.1, a minor update to the current Windows Cellular platform that includes a number of interface enhancements.Next on the horizon is Windows Mobile 7, which will add zooming, scaling and a new suite of Win Mobile apps,
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Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, according to Gizmodo;s account. Gizmodo says “there;s talk about doing some sort of collaboration together with the Zune crew, but that;s still up in the air.”(I;ve been hearing talk that Microsoft is working on a suite of Live services that will work across Windows Cellular, Xbox 360,
Cheap Windows 7, Zune and possibly Microsoft TV. Perhaps this will debut in the
WIndows 7 timeframe, whatever that is.)After Windows Mobile 7 is … tada … Windows Cellular 8. Gizmodo;s synopsis:“This (Windows Mobile 8) is the version you;ve been waiting for,
Office Ultimate 2007 Key, implementing a completely redesigned user interface, ‘revolutionary; attributes like global search, and new concepts such as automation and connections within the phone, ideas borrowed from other smartphone operating systems. This means that you;ll be able to go from viewing a person;s address info in his contact card to seeing where he lives in map view in one click. There will be much additional of this intuitive flow, and much less digging through menus.”Microsoft mission along with the next few releases of Windows Cellular is to take a item that the company built to satisfy business/enterprise users and make it additional palatable to consumers. Meanwhile, Apple is looking to do the inverse with all the iPhone: Take a consumer platform and make it appealing to the business community by integrating far more tightly the iPhone with Exchange Server,
Windows 7 Home Basic Key, etc.What;s your take? Will Windows Cellular phones catch up to iPhones on the ease-of-use and/or coolness meters any time soon?