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Monday, November 06, 2006
Vodafone to use only Windows Mobile?
Update: A misunderstanding on my part: Vodafone adds Windows Mobile to its list of preferred phone OSs/platforms for future phones, previously consisting of Symbian OS and Linux. Most current phones run neither of these OSs. Rather they use OSE, Nucleus and similar simpler OSs. Clearly there's a shift towards OSs that can run separately installed applications, not just embedded such, and that can also multi-task properly, but it will take many years. Especially for Microsoft this won't mean very much in the short term.
Quote: Vodafone announced earlier this year that it would whittle down the number of operating systems it supports from more than 15 to two or three.
Vodafone chooses Microsoft as third phone platform | InfoWorld | News | | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
If this is unconditionally true this would be a huge win for Microsoft and its mobile phone software division. What I suspect though is that there are several conditions for this decision by Vodafone, so I'd like to hear Vodafone's version too.
I'm surprised Vodafone would choose Microsoft, considering Windows Mobile is hardly known for being intuitive, is hardly used at all (in 6M phones), Microsoft has so far not bothered much about OMA and other industry fora, and Microsoft is not much liked by operators in general.
I didn't find any press release about this in the news archive, which adds to my doubts.
Vodafone first to standardize software - Microsoft - Yahoo! News
Quote: Vodafone announced earlier this year that it would whittle down the number of operating systems it supports from more than 15 to two or three.
Vodafone chooses Microsoft as third phone platform | InfoWorld | News | | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
If this is unconditionally true this would be a huge win for Microsoft and its mobile phone software division. What I suspect though is that there are several conditions for this decision by Vodafone, so I'd like to hear Vodafone's version too.
I'm surprised Vodafone would choose Microsoft, considering Windows Mobile is hardly known for being intuitive, is hardly used at all (in 6M phones), Microsoft has so far not bothered much about OMA and other industry fora, and Microsoft is not much liked by operators in general.
I didn't find any press release about this in the news archive, which adds to my doubts.
Vodafone first to standardize software - Microsoft - Yahoo! News
