WM Hits the Wall

There’s a very cool article at Pocket PC Thoughts about Windows Mobile and its place in the Microsoft stable, comparingit to Zune, XP and the XBox 360 OS.

The Pocket PC and Smartphone operating system of record, Windows Mobile, in turn based on Windows CE, was around back then – and in many ways, still harkens back to those days design wise.

When I use a Windows Mobile device, I almost feel like I’m back in the late 90s, design and implementation wise. For example, the inbox feels very isolated from the rest of the OS. On the desktop I can drag an item from my inbox to the Calendar button in Outlook and boom – a new calendar entry pops up with the email as the notes.

These are sentiments the Gadget Monkey finds himself agreeing with – the world ha moved on so much, and Windows Mobile is getting left behind, looking like a mini Windows and Office 2000 in the age of iPhone, Vista and Safari, and other almost seamless interfaces.

Without a radical re-engineering, WM7 will never arrive, and WM6.1 will be nothing more than a revision of an already flailing death nell.

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