Microsoft promises to improve Windows Mobile’s music features

It seems like an age since Windows Mobile was for stuffy business smartphones only. Microsoft’s mobile OS has now made its way into various slinky consumer-focused handsets too, with a corresponding improvement in its multimedia features. However, it seems Microsoft wants to go further, and take on Apple’s iPhone.”One thing that Apple has leveraged on is the music scenario, and I think that that is something the operators and ourselves are partnering on, just to make sure that consumers can use live music in the best way,” senior VP Andy Lees tells Reuters, albeit without giving any details on the company’s music plans. Hopefully they involve banning phrases like ‘leveraging on the music scenario’ though.One thing Microsoft won’t be doing anytime soon is releasing a ZunePhone, according to another exec Robbie Bach, who’s reasserted that “We don’t make phones ourselves. We don’t have any plans to make phones ourselves”. However, he’s bullish about Windows Mobile’s prospects: “We will outsell the iPhone. We will outsell the BlackBerry.” So there you have it.

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