Microsoft is currently developing Windows Mobile 7, the first revolutionary change to its mobile device operating system. Recently, I was given a document by a source inside Microsoft that details the touch and gesture plans for Mobile 7. This document is a confidential internal use only document, used to explain the plans for Mobile 7, and contains well over a hundred pages of designs, ideas, and changes to the way we interact with our mobile devices. Below, you’ll find over 3,000 words detailing my notes from the document. I can’t publish the document here, at least not until after the product is announced, to protect my sources. I will provide the document to trusted journalists in order to share and show proof of this information. If there is anything I leave out, please don’t hesitate to ask and I will try to provide a screenshot or answer.
The document appears to be from the past summer, and some of the details may change before the product is announced. However, the touch and gesture plans appear to be set in stone, and will be the focus of Windows Mobile 7.
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because the iPhone was the first to do what exactly?
Microsoft has been working on surface and touch computing for years... Michael Bey's "The Island" has a Surface Computing prototype in it and don't forget Tablet PC.
That's bull, the LG phone was on the market 6 months before the iPhone.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEMaqkkYWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHs8_OGGNs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBl4djMnEy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5916aOMQNI
The link works ok for me. Maybe it was just busy when you tried it?
Or trying to start another OS argument, like you are with the "debacle" comment.
According to Microsoft.
According to Microsoft.
Prove otherwise, please. Source?
Lets not kid ourselves WM has been targeted solely for Business users for almost a decade now, its unfortunate that Microsoft simply didnt acknowledge the rapid price drops in PDA and PDA Mobiles combined with their MASSIVE feature sets. The result is you have a powerful mobile device that would appeal to consumers but simply doesnt have the interface, so much so that disappointingly HTC were left to lead the charge with a more touch based front to the whole thing.
I think now its finally clicked for Microsoft that hey:
1. We still have the Business market, few support the iphone for business use particularly over WM (at the moment)
2. We have a feature rich platform to use with devices now packing everything all in one from VGA to GPS to video out to universal connectivity.
3. The devices are damn affordable and competitively priced now (bless cheap electronics and Asian labour)
4. iPhone and the HTC touch have proven ppl love touch based devices, lets build on this and take a run at the consumer market.
5. Let's do this in conjunction with our partners whom we all reap the rewards from. Let's work with Hardware vendors, WinMo suppliers and 3rd party software developers to promote and advertise these bad boys. Lets generate some buzz and importantly educate people on the features and power of this technology.
Regardless of whether this article or these pictures are anywhere on the road to Windows Mobile 7, theres a few items which should *Must* be predictable inclusions to the WinMo 7 O/S:
1. A rich eyecandy based UI that will appeal to Consumers.
2. Expanded Business apps possibly Office suites capable of creating and descently editing docs/presentations due to larger displays and VGA screens now - to appeal to business. Likely to see improved PIM as well which will likely cut across some of the feature sets of popular information apps such as Pocket breeze or AgendaFusion. This ones a necessity. Whilst we all like 3rd party WinMo apps, MS, if theres not a Revamped PIM system dont come to the table where business is concerned. Business users must have more options for how PIM info is displayed on these devices in particular on the homescreens.
3. Multitouch and heavily touch based interface. Benefits and appeals to everyone.
4. Heavy media features most likely based on a media centre-esque interface probably closely resembling how PMPs handle album art etc (hopefully even a little itouch like). WinMo devices have been capable of being PMPs for the six years i've used them, give us the eyecandy and feature rich interface to use them as such (hell id settle for a 3rd party person to do it...)
5. Bring back Wireless Syncing!!! surely its secure now?? You cannot promote "always connected" when I cannot do the most basic WinMo syncing via an excellent tech included on almost every Windows device now, WiFi.
...okay that one was hopeful but I contend you could bet money on the others based off commonsense and the article regardless of whether its a mock up or not
Last edited by Osiris on 07 Jan 2008 - 07:48
Therefore insinuating that they'll look the same is just baloney.
The featureset of Windows and Windows Mobile could support the kind of interface that a Mac gives, but the chances of similarity is low, Microsoft has their own design department.
If you wanna know how windows 7 (next windows os) is gonna look like, look as mac osx Leopard.
vista was mac osx tiger photocopy. MS nicks ideas like everyone else does
Oh, give it a rest! Mac fanboys always say "MS nicked our ideas!" Vista looks nothing like Tiger! For starters, it actually looks good.
Vista:
Tiger:
Last edited by MightyJordan on 07 Jan 2008 - 11:37
Visually they are different, but techwise they aint.
cant bore you with the similarities but all vista users who uses mac aswell know vista was a failed copy of mac osx tiger.
Last edited by swandike on 07 Jan 2008 - 13:40
Visually they are different, but techwise they aint.
cant bore you with the similarities but all vista users who uses mac aswell know vista was a failed copy of mac osx tiger.
Lovely, Vista and OSX are the same thing, the sky is the ground, black is white, etc... Thank you, move on. This news post is about Windows Mobile 7, not your ignorance.
Take the I-Phone for example. I know 3 years ago I dident have a cell phone that had a touch screen, displayed images played MP3s, Videos and Had a Webbrowser.... oh wait.
I think Microsoft finally has learned that not always is good be the first when at the end everybody will copy ideas from others to improve them and bring new and better things
people and companies have copied ideas for years and years, its called advancing. If technology improves by people taking a previous good idea and evolving it, then great stuff.
If no one copied someone elses ideas, we wouldn't be where we are now with technology.
What we all want is genuity but once that cant be achieved, people should just shut up when they spot something of theirs being used in another mans platform.
=====>>>>>>>>Point finger to Gates and his lawyers
http://www.gsmarena.com/hot_windows_mobile...ht-news-399.php
Last edited by Zhivago on 07 Jan 2008 - 16:18
Gates got no more ideas thats why he is stepping down. In fact he should have done that after xp sp2 I reckon
Last edited by swandike on 07 Jan 2008 - 16:28
Gates got no more ideas thats why he is stepping down. In fact he should have done that after xp sp2 I reckon
I think Microsoft can copy every idea they can while it is legal to improve their products... At the end everybody is doing this
Microsoft can copy the whole iPhone, I don't care, the thing is, as a customer I want their products improved
Last edited by daniel_rh on 07 Jan 2008 - 16:33
Gates got no more ideas thats why he is stepping down. In fact he should have done that after xp sp2 I reckon
Can iPhone do this too?
Gates got no more ideas thats why he is stepping down. In fact he should have done that after xp sp2 I reckon
Erm.. enlighten me how this looks like the iphone? other than the keyboard, i don't see any similarities
http://www.engadget.com/photos/is-this-windows-mobile-7/
take a look
Windows seven & windows mobile seven gonna rock for sure!! :-)
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