Today at Microsoft Corp.'s third annual European Mobile Developer Conference (DevCon), co-located with Tech•Ed Europe 2004, Microsoft joined industry partners to showcase new hardware and applications for mobile devices, and introduced enhancements to its mobile platform designed to increase flexibility for application developers and extend the functionality of the Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework. In addition, the company announced the following:

• Significant progress in Microsoft's mobile enterprise efforts has been demonstrated by deployment of 11,000 Windows Mobile (TM) devices by global elevator company KONE Corp., and recognition by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan of Microsoft's efforts in the mobile enterprise market.
• Microsoft and mobile operators O2 and TeliaSonera AB today announced plans to deliver real-time location-based services for Microsoft MapPoint® Location Server (MLS) to enable businesses to significantly improve the way they locate, track and manage their mobile assets and mobile work force.
• Windows® CE 5.0 will offer expanded source licensing, enabling, for the first time, all licensees to ship products commercially with derivatives of the Windows CE 5.0 shared source code. In addition, Windows CE 5.0 includes networking performance improvements that dramatically increase data processing speeds, more than 60 production-quality drivers and Direct3D® Mobile to enable rich and graphically intensive applications. (Please see related news release.)
• This year's conference also follows the recent announcement of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software, a new version of the platform that offers unprecedented flexibility and customization capabilities for mobile developers and hardware manufacturers.