{"id":153747,"date":"2010-01-08T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12033"},"modified":"2010-01-08T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:25:12","slug":"windows-mobile-7-to-be-announced-at-mobile-world-congress-%e2%80%9csets-the-bar-forward%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/153747","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 7 to be announced at Mobile World Congress, \u201csets the bar forward\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12033\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12033\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wmconcept-thumb.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"204\" \/>Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach has been talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-mobile-7\" >Windows Mobile 7<\/a> at a January 7 Financial Analyst Briefing at CES.<\/p>\n<p>Bach said to expect in WM7 \u201cthings will be talked about at MWC.\u201d and regarding the consumer-focussed OS he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen it and played with it,\u201d (Windows Mobile 7 will) \u201cset the bar forward not in (just) an evolutionary way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bach further said Microsoft intends to step up its \u201c<em>go to market approach<\/em>\u201d so that it will be \u201c<em>more engaged<\/em>\u201d with its mobile OEMs. We know Microsoft has spoken a lot about speeding up the release cycle of both its OS\u2019s and actual devices, reducing it from a common 2 years to as short as 6 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=4913\" >Mary Jo Foley<\/a>, who reported on the discussion, believes Mobile World Congress will also see Microsoft announcing improvements to its <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=my-phone\" >My Phone<\/a> service, which should integrate even more deeply with Windows Mobile phones, for example allowing ring tones to be changed directly from the web interface, applications and themes to be installed, and better integration with Windows Live and Live Mesh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileworldcongress.com\/index.htm\">Mobile World Congress (MWC)<\/a> is between the 15th and 18th of February 2010 and will be held as usual in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12033&amp;linkname=Windows%20Mobile%207%20to%20be%20announced%20at%20Mobile%20World%20Congress%2C%20%26ldquo%3Bsets%20the%20bar%20forward%26rdquo%3B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach has been talking about Windows Mobile 7 at a January 7 Financial Analyst Briefing at CES. Bach said to expect in WM7 \u201cthings will be talked about at MWC.\u201d and regarding the consumer-focussed OS he said: \u201cI\u2019ve seen it and played with it,\u201d (Windows Mobile 7 will) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}