Microsoft's been pretty cagey with the future of Windows Mobile so far, but apparently the Office Mobile 2010 team just doesn't care -- in addition to leaking a new interface in
that confidential slide deck last month, they've now included this screen shot on the Office Mobile 2010 beta website. Here's what's wild: this design language completely matches the
first set of Windows Mobile 7 leaks we saw nearly
two years ago, so either Microsoft hasn't made any changes in that time, or what we're seeing here is something else entirely. Combine that with rumors that WinMo 7 isn't due to hit
until the end of next year, and we're starting to think there's something bigger afoot here -- the only other alternative is that Microsoft has waited nearly three years to launch what's little more than a refresh of its current interface, and even Redmond can't be that slow to execute... can it?
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IntoMobile]
posted Nov 18th 2009 4:27PM
cool, speculating speculation...
Judging from the page it seems that the Office Mobile team was just pulling random images of different screens from older versions of Office Mobile, and the Windows Mobile 7 shot from 2 years ago was the only thing they had for Sharepoint (since Sharepoint seems to be a new feature/application in the Windows Mobile Office Suite), so they put it up.
I really hope that is what happened, because if that ends up being what Windows Mobile 7 looks like (just a nice skin for 6.5) I will be majorly disappointed.
aka just a nice skin for 6.1.. nono wait 6.0.. hold on its coming 5.0? hmmmm :/
That looks like nothing more than a PointUI theme. Same footer bar layout, just a different color.