Windows Mobile 7 analysts said Microsoft is late

As is well known for some time now, Microsoft is investing a large amount of capital and labor now on upcoming launch of Windows 7 Phone, figures which are around 1 billion dollars in promotion and development. Analysts, however, respond to efforts stressing that Microsoft is embarking on a dangerous investment.

Eric Bleeker Motley Fool, a well known financial company, is one of many who feel too much at risk as Microsoft Windows 7 Phone is too late to place properly in unstable and volatile market of mobile OS. According to the analysis of Bleeker, indeed:

Microsoft thinks of a system to track the road when the GPS does not work

Earlier this month we saw a prototype built by Microsoft: The Menlo . We asked the utility of this device in light of the barometer, the necessary instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. Today we get the answer through a presentation at the conference which occurred MobileHCI Lisbon.

The prototype Menlo serves to test a new technology useful while traveling. On some points, especially if covered by a high vegetation, the device may have difficulty docking the satellite signal. Menlo, thanks to the application Greenfield manages to cover that time frame.

Windows Mobile 7 would in 6 months

Windows Mobile 7, which is the next big revolution at Microsoft (and not an evolution as derniers updates) should arrive by 6 months on the market. The news comes from Kevin Chen, manager at HTC. According to Mr Chen, the first machines running Windows Mobile 7 should arrive in the first quarter of 2009. Windows Mobile 7 is without doubt the mobile OS which will bring as much as Apple. If this information proves valid, the launch would probably be scheduled for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2009. I remember seeing the first sketches of Windows Mobile 7 (code-named Photon) during a Mobius event in Seattle in 2005. The water has flowed under the bridge since.