Microsoft Ready for Showdown with Apple iPhone and Google’s Android
August 25th, 2009 | by Jhananthi Janakiraman |Apple and Google better watch out. Android and iPhone operating systems are under attack from none other than Microsoft, the software giant. If sources in the Taiwan handset industry are correct, then Microsoft will soon be releasing Windows Mobile 6.5 by October first week.
This will be followed by an upgrade to the software platform in February next year that will have a touch interface. WinMo 6.5 will be released along with Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile app storefront.
If you think Microsoft will phase out WinMo 6.5 when it launches Windows Mobile 7 then you are in for a surprise… that is not the company’s modus operandi.
Microsoft will only bring down the price of WinMo 6.5 so as to take on the Android platform, while the new WinMo 7 will target the iPhone and Apple’s mobile operating system. Say what? Yes, that’s right…Microsoft will make two operating systems available to developers and handset makers at the same time.
This dual-platform strategy of introducing Windows Mobile on October first followed by Windows Mobile 7 in fourth quarter of 2010 is aimed at having a better standing in the mobile market taking on both Android and iPhone operating systems in one shot.
