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Nokia, Microsoft in Talks to Load Windows Mobile on Phones [Cellphones]

Nokia, who's supposedly super loyal to the Symbian platform, is currently in talks with Microsoft (says one of Microsoft's marketing directors) to load Windows Mobile on the handset maker's phones.... [lien] [EN]

Download the Microsoft® Windows Mobile LOB Solution Accelerator 2008

The Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator is a sample line of business application that showcases the latest design principles and technologies in the mobile space. This has been released to the web and can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428E4C3D-64AD-4A3D-85D2-E711ABC87F04&displaylang=en at the Microsoft Downloads site....(read more) [lien] [EN]

Hi Ho Silverlight? Microsoft Windows Mobile Gets PDF and Flash Friendly [Software]

Microsoft just signed a deal to license Adobe's Flash Lite and Reader PDF formats for Windows Mobile. There's no word yet on when this will appear in the operating system itself, but it's a nice show of openness. It also means two things: 1) Microsoft's Flash competitor, Silverlight, may not be cutting the mustard, and this is no way to spur developers. 2) Steve Jobs' allegation that Flash Lite isn't good enough for the iPhone might hold less water, though few would disagree that iPhone quality standards are higher than Windows Mobile's. [InfoWorld] [lien] [EN]

Windows Mobile 7 Could Be Too Little Too Late, But Might Come On Microsoft Hardware [Windows Mobile 7]

You may not remember this because the news came out during CES, but back in January there was a gigantic leak of Windows Mobile 7 details, including an Alaskan Senator's dump truck full of images. Brandon from Pocket Now recently got to SEE Windows Mobile 7 at a Microsoft MVP event, and while he thinks it's a fantastic OS, he's got a huge problem with the release date. Based on what he heard at Microsoft, the target release date seems to be mid to late 2009. He's got no problem with the technology in WM7—he says it basically addresses everything wrong with WM6 today—but the fact that it's not going to be released until a year and a half from now is troublesome. How can Microsoft compete when the iPhone will already been out for two and a half years. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft looks to build one-stop mobile apps market (Macworld)

A job advertisement suggests Microsoft is preparing to launch a Web site called Skymarket to sell Windows Mobile OS applications—not unlike Apple’s App Store within iTunes. Yahoo! News [lien] [EN]

Microsoft prepares to launch website for mobile apps (TechWorld)

Company looks to ape success of iTunes.. Microsoft is preparing to introduce a website  to sell Windows Mobile OS applications. Yahoo! News [lien] [EN]

Fighting Reality, Microsoft Will Keep Charging for Windows Mobile [Delusions Of Grandeur]

One of the reasons you're going to see Android on a ton of phones—aside from Google's juggernautical influence—isn't because of its ass-beating potential, but because hardware makers don't have to pay anything for it. They do have to pay for Windows Mobile, the other major free-floating smartphone OS, on the other hand, and Steve Ballmer is saying it's going to stay that way, even as RIM's BlackBerry passes it in marketshare. Of course, by the time Windows Mobile 7 finally, finally enters a much more hostile mobile world, he could be singing something way different. [Reuters] Read More: Why Android Will Soon Kick Ass, 3M Mobile ID Reader Helps Big Brother Take Your Identity More Efficiently, Microsoft Loves Open Systems Except When They Can Close Them. [lien] [EN]

Windows Mobile update stumbles as Google phone announced [Microsoft]

Just in time for the announcement by T-Mobile of the first publicly available mobile phone running Google's new Android operating system comes word that Microsoft will be delaying the release of Windows Mobile 7 for at least another six months. The new version of the software was supposed to be released shortly after the new year won't be available until at least the second half of 2009. [News.com] Read More: Microsoft minions made to punch in, punch out for lunch, meetings , Windows 7 will dump desktop apps for downloaded versions , Microsoft hires social network wonk, lets her keep her Mac , Forget Yahoo, Microsoft buys more Microsoft [lien] [EN]

Microsoft holds to Windows Mobile licensing fees

Microsoft intends to hold to its policy of charging royalties for Windows Mobile, says company CEO Steve Ballmer. The operating system is facing increasing competition, most notably from Nokia's newly royalty-free Symbian platform, and Google's open... [lien] [EN]

Microsoft’s $300 million ‘consumer product blitz’ inches closer

What kinds of products will Microsoft be pushing when it launches its new $200 million to $300 million consumer-product ad campaign in early 2008? AdAge has reported that Microsoft has narrowed its search for an agency to handle creative for the forthcoming “consumer-products blitz” to two: MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Publicis Groupe’s Fallon. No doubt, Xboxes and Zunes will be on the roster. Windows Home Server (which is currently plagued by a serious and still unresolved file-corruption bug) could be on the list, too. Windows Live services and Windows Vista could stand for some serious consumer advertising help. Other likely candidates for Microsoft’s consumer ad campaign? I’d bet the Surface tabletop technology — which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will show off during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote in early January — will be part of the campaign. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft softens limits on its Windows Web Server

When Microsoft starts shipping Windows Web Server 2008 real soon now, the licensing terms and conditions it will require of its customers will be different than they were for prior versions of the company’s Web-server version of the product. Customers will be able to use any type of database software, with no limit on the number of users, with the Web-server SKU based on Windows Server 2008, according to Microsoft. CRN first reported the change in the database-licensing terms for Windows Web Server 2008. With the Windows Server 2003 Web Edition product, Microsoft customers were not allowed to use the product with “non-enterprise database engine software, such as Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine, licensed to support not more than 25 users at one time. [lien] [EN]

Windows Mobile 7 to Focus on Touch and Gestures?

We’re a bit skeptical, but Nathan Weinberg of the InsideMicrosoft blog claims to have received a copy of an internal document from a source inside Microsoft. Said 100-page document reportedly details Microsoft’s plans for developing the Windows Mobile 7 platform and contains a host of mock ups. Of course it makes sense that Microsoft will be focusing on enhancing touch functionality along with every other mobile OS developer, but the addition of motion and finger / stylus gestures may help separate WM7 from the pack. Basic gesture control already exists in various handsets of course, but we have yet to see it implemented on a wide scale across an entire OS. This however, poses the question: do you really want to control your mobile phone with gestures? Certain gesture controls are interesting and potentially useful such as the "shake to wake" gesture pictured in the mock up above. [lien] [EN]

HTC Loses Title as #1 Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Smartphone Maker, Now #3 [Smartphones]

DigiTimes, which cites internal Microsoft data, claims that HTC has declined from the previous #1 Windows Mobile non-touchscreen smartphone maker spot with over 50% of the market (from July '06 to... [lien] [EN]

Site sneaks in preview of Windows Mobile 6.1

A Portugese website claims to have acquired an advance version of Windows Mobile 6.1, a revision of Microsoft's portable operating system due sometime early this year, possibly as soon as the 3GSM conference in Barcelona on February 11th. Version 6.... [lien] [EN]