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Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software

Microsoft today unveiled Windows Mobile 6, the newest version of its mobile software platform. By improving usability and adding support for Microsoft Office features previously available only on PCs, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 delivers to the small screen a familiar and rich experience that meets the needs of work and life while on the go, all with a single device.

  • Better-looking e-mail. Users view e-mail the way it was intended with its original pictures, tables and formatting, whether from a corporate e-mail server such as Exchange Server 2007, Web-based accounts such as Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, or a wide range of other service providers.
  • Ease of viewing and editing of Office system documents. The new Office Mobile suite, built for all Windows Mobile powered devices, gives users a truly familiar and powerful experience with rich viewing and editing capabilities, without having to worry about the deletion of critical formatting and images.
  • E-mail management and setup with fewer clicks. Nine new one-click options have been added, including Reply All, setting a flag, moving a message to a subfolder, and, of course, Delete. Users can set an automatic out-of-office reply while on the road when using a Windows Mobile 6 powered device and Exchange Server 2007.
  • Synchronization with Windows Vista. Windows Vista and the Windows Mobile Device Center take the guesswork out of managing a device and swapping music, pictures, movies and Outlook information between PC and the device.
  • Smart calendar bar. This innovative new feature gives users the ability to understand at a glance the day or week ahead and quickly determine open time on their schedules. With Exchange Server 2007, they can see who is attending a meeting and forward or reply to meeting requests.
  • Web search, e-mail, instant messaging (IM) and blogging all together. Windows Live for Windows Mobile will provide customers with a rich set of services including Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Live Search and Windows Live Spaces, uniquely designed to work with Windows Mobile software. Users can also find all their contacts in one unified list and see presence information on their Windows Live Messenger contacts.
  • Contacts with context. Call history is now placed where it belongs, in each individual contact card, so people spend less time searching and more time communicating.

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Fact Sheet

1 thought on “Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software

tina February 15, 2007 at 4:22 pm

I hope that PDAs or Pocket PCs that still run on Windows Mobile 5 will not encounter any problem when being connected to a PC that runs on Vista. I haven’t shifted to Vista yet due to compatibility and synchronization fears. But I think I might just take the plunge next week since I already found an excellent source of Vista drivers (http://www.radarsync.com/vista). I’m looking forward to using both operating systems very soon.

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