Microsoft announced its latest operating system for PDAs, smartphones and media players today, adding support for many features available in cutting-edge phones and giving mobile carriers more flexibility in customizing devices—which might just lead to more Windows Mobile devices appearing on store shelves.
Windows Mobile 5.0 isn't a radical re-imagining of Microsoft's previous OS, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. Rather, it's an accumulation of new features designed to satisfy users' wish lists, stave off competition, and prepare Microsoft for the devices we know are coming in 2006. Like other evolutionary upgrades, it's backwards compatible. Almost all Windows Mobile 2003 software will run on 5.0, Microsoft says.
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