Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 To Be Based On Windows 7 CE
Microsoft is keeping the Windows Mobile 7’s environment a secret and we will have to thank WMPowerUser’s sources for uncovering the mystery. According to its sources, Windows Mobile 7 will be based on Windows 7 CE which Microsoft has been perfecting for quite a while now. Windows 7 CE is a huge upgrade from Windows 5.0 kernel, the really outdated environment that stands at the base of Windows Mobile 6.
If Microsoft wants to innovate then it has to power its WinMo on a newer build. It simply has to! Like said in previous posts, Windows Mobile phones cannot perform as good as phones based on Android, and iPhone because the Windows CE doesn’t work well with capacitive touchscreens, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor (the HD2 would be a lot faster running Windows Mobile 7 and its users deserve this update), and it cannot playback 720p video.
It is said that the Windows 7 CE supports dual-core architecture, WiFi positioning system, CellCore, DRM, Media Transfer Protocol, Bluetooth 2.1, Visual Studio 2008, NDIS 6.1, and UX C ++ XAML API in a long list of “features.” For the sake of the competition we hope that Microsoft will innovate. WinMo 6.5 is decent, comes with lots of features that other OSes don’t have, but its core is simply outdated.
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- Dragos Pirvu
We don’t know if the HD2 will be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 7. I think it’s wishful thinking.
HD2 owners may get stuck at WinMo 6.6 forever. Not only that, but the 6.X series is at the end of the line. It’s a dead platform.
It’s truly extraordinary that Microsoft left Windows Mobile to rot on the vine for so long, with the current kernel being CE 5.2, the same derelict kernel they were using for Windows Mobile 5 back in 2004.
Windows Mobile users and developers should be angry that Microsoft abandoned them for so long. Now it might all be too late to get back into the game.
@David C: Thanks for the comment! If I’d be a HD2 owner and Microsoft wouldn’t find a way to upgrade my device to WinMo 7, then I’d ask my money back. Microsoft didn’t promise that the HD2 will be upgradeable, but the device features an impressive hardware. So why wouldn’t it be upgradeable?
Also it is “truly extraordinary” that WinMo 6.5 is based on 5.2 CE. Let’s just wait for MWC 2010 and see how innovative WinMo 7 really is.