Microsoft has produced readily available for download emulator pictures for Web Explorer (IE) 6 for Windows Mobile phones.(Sure, that isn;t a typo. Although Microsoft is finalizing IE 8 for PCs,
Windows 7 64 Bit, it;s only as much as IE 6 for its cellular platform.)The new IE 6 bits had been launched on November 11 as component with the Windows Mobile six.one.four release from Microsoft;s Download Middle Web website. According the Windows Cellular blog, carriers need to begin providing IE 6 on Windows Cellular phones “soon.” Microsoft has been touting IE 6 for Windows Mobile for months as its first “full-fledged” browser release for cellular devices. From its Web web page:“Windows Cellular 6.one.four includes the new World wide web Explorer Mobile 6, a full-featured browser for Windows Mobile devices that brings the same high-quality browsing experience to the user as desktop browsers. Net Explorer Cellular 6 supports desktop-quality rendering and has the best compliance support of all versions of Online Explorer on a Windows Cellular device to date. Several new features and improved support allows users to complete tasks quickly and easily.”Microsoft has been trying to shore up its cellular strategy and products as of late (even though its executives continue to claim publicly that all is well there). Microsoft shook up its mobile-management ranks over the past month. And the company is now acknowledging that it is planning to release a Windows Mobile 6.5 operating-system update to phone makers in 2009. The long-awaited Windows Mobile 7 is looking like a latter half of 2010 release, at this point.According to the latest numbers from market place watchers at Canalys,
Windows 7 Key, Symbian,
Office 2007 Download, Apple and RIM outpaced Microsoft (which delivers Windows Mobile via mobile-phone makers,
Windows 7 32bit, not directly) in terms of Q3 mobile shipments worldwide. In the third quarter, Nokia had 47 percent worldwide smart phone market place share; Apple,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, 17 percent; RIM 15 percent and Microsoft Windows Cellular phones, 14 percent.