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Announcing Windows Mobile 6.1

This morning Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.1 and an upgrade for Internet Explorer Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 will start showing up in devices very very soon, and the IEMobile update will be available later this year.
Windows Mobile 6.1 includes a slew of new features and improvements, including a redesigned home screen, built-in Task Manager, [...]

Faster C#

Hi everybody, my name is Roshan Khan and I’m a dev working on Windows Mobile at MS. I’ve been working at the Mobile Devices division for the past 18 months. For the majority of my day I’m working in C++ and on a few unfortunate occasions assembly. Whenever I get the chance however, I try [...]

Video: Demos of cool new Windows Mobile 6.1 features

Windows Mobile 6.1 was just announced at CTIA yesterday. A bunch of us got together to record a video demoing most of the new features in Windows Mobile 6.1. Check out this 40-minute video that shows:

Cool devices, including the T-Mobile Shadow, HTC Tilt, Pantech Duo, Moto Q9
The new Sliding Panel home screen (aka “Bronze”)
All new [...]

MSFT heart Windows Mobile

Everyone I know at Microsoft uses a Windows Mobile phone (well, except for 2 people…one is a guy that works in the Mac Unit and the other is Bill Gates who doesn’t use a cell phone). Microsoft employees are often the first customers of our product. To see just how passionate they can be, check out [...]

The new Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator

We’re really excited to announce that the new Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008 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.  Having the best mobile development platform and tools is more important now than it’s ever been before and that’s why we’ve delivered this [...]