Windows Mobile for Mobile Phones?!

June 5, 2005 · 1 min read

I got all excited hearing that Windows Mobile 5.0 was going to be released.  Only for my hopes to be quashed once again by the likes of HTC and other mobile phone providers.  It seems that they have all clubbed together and decided that they will not be doing ROM upgrades from Windows Mobile 2003 SE to the latest and greatest because it is in their interest to make phone users buy the new phones just for the OS!!!!

This annoys developers such as myself because we want to play with this OS as well as develop software for it.  How can we do that when these companies get in our way.  Microsoft really hasn't helped by only providing the platform to the phone providers!  They should be providing it to the developers, after all we are the ones that will market their products for them if they are good and reliable!!! Give us a break and let us do our jobs!

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Sarah Blow

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