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6.5.3 Announcement Imminent @ Upcoming CES Keynote?

They Need This One Not to Fail
With the past releases of the Windows Mobile operating systems for their branded smartphones, Microsoft really needs the future release of WinMo, no mater what it is, to be perfect. Otherwise, I fear it will be the end of anything remotely Microsoft. The past failures of Microsoft were so complete and so catastrophically total, and I am including desktop and smartphone operating systems in the mix, that if this one does not have anything special, it might just be the last we will want to hear from them.

WinMo was a legacy in its own right, being as it was the first OS to make it onto a smartphones and 6.1 made headlines, deservingly so, and went on to partially make up for the complete and total failure of Vista. Imagine that, a smartphone was the redeeming quality of Microsoft-how ironic. 6.1 had what they needed it to have-almost perfect user interface, even better features, and more than anyone anticipated it to have. So, it’s not surprising that WinMo relied heavily on the reputation of 6.1 to market the new version, 6.5, when its release neared. And everyone got hyped up for the new and improved WinMo 6.5 too. All the big smartphone manufacturers eagerly awaited WinMo’s release, they even held off on the release of some smartphones just so they could be the first with WinMo 6.5 on them…

The Unthinkable Happened
And then it happened. Smartphone OS Acute Death. The complete and utter failure of WInMo 6.5. Before it even materialized at all. Some even say it makes Windows Vista look angelic. Amazing. Apparently something went so completely wrong with the technical aspects of the update that it actually looks they forgot to update anything at all! According to some, who have hands on experience with 6.5, the only thing that look like it was changed was the name. Everything else stayed the same. Minor updates to the UI and a name change. Yup! That’s what you call a major half point release, uh-huh, for sure! Why didn’t they just wait for WinMo 7, instead of putting any energy into WInMo 6.5, they should have waited and actually done something right, like engineer an update worth something to the people.

Enter WinMo 6.5.3
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have always been one to give the benefit of the doubt-even where it doesn’t belong-but this time I can’t. It’s not that I am a Microsoft hater, or even that I don’t like Windows. It’s the fact that Microsoft is finished living off it’s reputation. Microsoft died when Bill Gates left and any humanity the company had left, well that left with him. Microsoft has to now actually do something interesting to win back the respect of the tech world. It has to actually update WinMo.

And apparently, as rumor has it, they have. WinMo 6.3.5 has been leaked in the MSDN Mobile Developer Center, with details of a touch tile instead of a soft key, and the rumors are starting to fly. And everyone is speculating the official announcement will be made at he CES Keynote, scheduled for January.

But just like with any good fairy tale, we are going to have to see where this one leads the people. I mean, what are we going to all get our hopes up for? WinMo has cried wolf too many times already and I honestly can’t even believe people still actually care about WinMo updates. Oh, that’s right… There are still people who use WinMo based phones. That’s a shame too, they are really nice phones…

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