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At last, Windows Mobile 6 aka "Crossbow"

by rastix on Wed 14 Feb 2007 05:41 PM CET | Permanent Link | Cosmos

On Monday, Microsoft revealed Windows Mobile 6 at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, Spain. Formerly known as Crossbow, the new mobile operating system has many interesting features. Some of the features that interest me most are:

Better support for Office applications like Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The mobile versions of these applications are available on SmartPhones as well.
Extra security features like storage card encryption and the possibility to wipe a storage card with Exchange's remote wipe feature.
Exchange 2007 AutoDiscovery support.
Support for HTML e-mails and hotkey support.
Easier to use your phone as a modem for your computer. Although I have no issues connecting my HTC MTeoR (Windows Mobile 5) to my laptop using bluetooth.
Easy to search e-mails on the device but also on the Exchange server (requires Exchange Server 2007).
Sending v-cards to others using an SMS. This should have been part of Windows Mobile from day one though.
Much easier to add trusted root certificates. This was definitely a pain with Windows Mobile 5.

A great resource for Windows Mobile 6 information is Jason Langridge's blog. Check out the post about the new features, and the video.

Devices with Windows Mobile 6 should start to appear in Q2 2007. I really hope HTC releases an update for the MteoR!

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