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'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.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 31 Jul 2009 12:29

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• 5 comments

• Shinraboy

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

  31.7.2009 16:48 #1

• KillerBug

  "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.

  1.8.2009 00:01 #2

• cart0181

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

  1.8.2009 18:08 #3

• DXR88

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

  1.8.2009 20:13 #4

• eLeCTR0n

  hahaha
  
  microsoft is stupid.
  Mobile does sound better.
  
  They should be more concerned with how the OS works than what they call it.

  6.8.2009 17:28 #5