Gizmodo have a preview of the next two versions of Windows Mobile (v7 & 8). Obviously, a lot of this is speculative at the moment but essentially, Microsoft are aware that Windows Mobile 6 has a few problems and have some impressive-sounding plans in place for the future.
Windows Mobile can be a bit slow, particularly on cheaper handsets, so Microsoft plan to raise the minimum hardware requirements for a WM device so that even the lower-spec models can keep up.
WM 7 will feature new versions of all the basic apps, most crucially a faster, more feature-rich Internet Explorer that can finally compete with other mobile browsers (*cough* Safari *cough*)
WM 8 will be rewritten from scratch and promises a new UI, global search and much tighter integration between the different components and apps that make up the operating system.
Can they pull it off? Well, who knows - Vista hasn’t exactly been the revolution in desktop computing that Microsoft promised either - but now that the iPhone has given the smartphone market a much-needed kick in the shorts, they might not have any choice..
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