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The Two Faces of Windows Mobile

It didn't seem possible, but Microsoft's Windows Mobile strategy now seems less comprehensible than ever before. Apparently, Redmond is going to some sort of two-platform approach, through which it'll see a couple of different versions of WinMo -- one updated and one not so updated. Om Malik's take? Disaster. And we can't see why he'd be wrong.

Posted by Lee Pender on August 20, 2009


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