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Rumor: Microsoft Plans to Counter Android, iPhone with Two Mobile OSes

Posted 08/19/09 at 06:46:47 PM  by Pulkit Chandna

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Microsoft’s share of the mobile OS market has plummeted sharply in the last few years. It needs to quickly mount a counter-offensive against its more dapper rivals in the smartphone market, if it is to prevent itself from being marginalized even further. According to Taiwanese rumor mill Digitimes, Microsoft does have a strategy to counter its rivals in the smartphone market.

A Digitimes report, based on insider information from sources at Taiwan handset makers, suggests that Microsoft has readied a dual-platform strategy to take on the Android platform and Apple's iPhone. Under this strategy, Microsoft will not withdraw Windows Mobile 6.5 from the market even after Windows 7 Mobile is released during the fourth quarter of 2010. Instead, it will keep Windows Mobile 6.5 – a minor upgrade – on the market, albeit at a lower price point.

According to the sources, Microsoft plans to pit Windows Mobile 6.5 against Android, while reserving Windows Mobile 7 for the Apple iPhone.

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TAGS: microsoft, Smartphone, android, Release, roadmap, mobile OS, windows mobile 7, apple iphone, windows mobile 6.5
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avatarthat's right, MS, split the

Submitted by Khaled on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 5:40am

that's right, MS, split the market. that will make it easier ... not for you anyway

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avatarjust ignore microsoft.

Submitted by Sina on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 7:01am

just ignore microsoft.

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avatarHere's the problem with

Submitted by neo1piv14 on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 5:56am

Here's the problem with closed source OSes: Windows Mobile 7 might come out initially beating Android since Microsoft apparently thinks they can beat Android with just 6.5. However, any cool new features that come out on 7 Mobile are just going to be ported over to Android within a month or two once the bugs are ironed out. I just don't see something with as robust a community as Android has being bested for too long if there are really features out there worth having.

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avatarWell i had a win mobile

Submitted by comptech08 on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 5:50pm

Well i had a win mobile phone and even though i liked the OS at the time
(it was my first "smart phone") it lacked support for example app development. 
I really don't like apples deceptiveness and telling me what i want and don't
want so I went with an android handset (G1)  I am very pleased with it.  There is
a huge community backing and supporting the OS.  So i just don't see how win 6.5
could compete with android.

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avatarnope, please take note...

Submitted by s3kShUn7 on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 5:01pm

The screenshot on the far right is not windows 7 mobile. Or anything to do with windows. It is a screenshot from an ipod touch/iphone that has been jailbroken, and modded with an extra theme. I should know, I have the same one.

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avatarThat's pretty funny. I

Submitted by AntiHero on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 11:26pm

That's pretty funny.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

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