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'Windows Mobile' is now 'Windows Phone'

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 31 Jul 2009 12:29 User comments (5)

'Windows Mobile' is now 'Windows Phone' Microsoft has noted that Windows Mobile will soon be known instead as Windows Phone, after an official name/brand change.
Microsoft reps, according to The Inquirer say the naming change will affect Windows 6.1, 6.5 and the upcoming WM 7 and will hopefully clear up the confusion brought by multiple versions of the mobile OS.

The name change will also "reflect the upcoming desktop operating system release where people away from their PC can have the same experience everywhere," concludes the software giant.

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5 user comments

131.7.2009 16:48

Dont let anyone lie to you. It matters. It really really does pfft

21.8.2009 00:01

"reflect the upcoming desktop operating system release where people away from their PC can have the same experience everywhere"

I want some of what they are smoking! Without a keyboard, mouse, and 3D graphics card, it will never be even close.

31.8.2009 18:08

And it's to get away from how clunky Windows Mobile is. Using the Diamond now and I hate it.

41.8.2009 20:13

Mobile sounds better phone sounds more like a device than an os

56.8.2009 17:28

hahaha

microsoft is stupid.
Mobile does sound better.

They should be more concerned with how the OS works than what they call it.

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