"Until the Windows Mobile team gets their act together and at the very least makes IE6 Mobile a downloadable upgrade for all existing WM6 phones, I'm switching browsers to Opera Mobile. IE has been banished from my phone," so declared Microsoft mostly fanboy and blogger Robert McLaws on his Windows Now blog today. "Microsoft may be content to let Mozilla and Apple kick their butt in the mobile space, but that doesn't mean that I have to be caught in the middle."
While the Windows Mobile world awaits on the many rumored announcements expected to take place at CES, McLaws has had enough of Microsoft's stalling. He's whipped out the Microsoft roadmap and noted that its been about four years of waiting on Microsoft to step up and compete with a proper mobile Web browser ("Screw multimedia features, i just want a better renderer, mmkay?" he says). A year ago, Microsoft was talking about Windows Mobile 7, then did an about face and in November let the world know that it would be Internet Explorer Mobile 6 released as the so-called next generation browser for Windows Mobile -- which will be Windows Mobile 6.1.4. And despite the fact that the IE team is on version 7 and working on version 8 (another painful story of delays causing frustration in the Web development community), IE Mobile 6 will still only (eventually, sometime in 2009) be available for new devices, the story goes.
Source: PC World
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