Eighteen months after the presentation of the Windows Mobile 6.1, Microsoft demonstrated the next version of the operating system for smartphones. Edit 6.5 is just the next step to a major renovation, the "sevens". Its goal is to regain lost market share recently. Meanwhile, even the chief of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is not pleased with her, at a meeting of the Microsoft Venture Capital Summit Ballmer admitted that software's giant failed to release the operating system for mobile devices.

During the event, the occasion of the release of Microsoft's leaders, together with device manufacturers such as Acer, HTC, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba presented not only Windows Mobile 6.5, but now known as Windows phones smartphones with new operating system. Representatives of the group from Redmond are hoping that version 6.5 will address new market segments: Microsoft has traditionally been a very strong position in the business sector. Windows Phones are designed for work and entertainment - and this is an area in which Microsoft has so far not sufficiently emphasized its presence. Hearing-class Windows phones have hit the stores at the end of the year in over 20 countries.

Review of finished and announced the Windows phones models can be found at www.windowsphone.com. Among the devices are, inter alia, HTC HD2, which will appear in shops as the first smartphone running Windows Mobile equipped with a capacitive touch screen and supports multitouch (by its own interface, called Sense). LG also introduced the group with the camera running 6.5 and the S-Class Panel UI - so the trend to hide Windows Mobile interface for copyright OEMs also appears in the new version of Microsoft's system.

Among the most conspicuous changes should be mentioned Windows Mobile Today screen rebuilt, new style preview of the new programs and Internet Explorer. In version 6.5 support for cameras to be finally possible even without using the stylus. Microsoft added in the preview program big buttons on the amended order arrangement. The applications can scroll the screen with your finger, before you had to constantly move the stylus on a microscopic slide the scroll bar at the right edge.

However, within the menus and programs such as e-mail client or the calendar still recognize the similarity to the Windows Mobile 6.1. In many places will do nothing without plastic stylus: the top bar, standard programs, icons, and control elements are again very small. And I think that's why at www.windowsphone.com/theme among other things, Microsoft offers a tool for shaping an individual style control panel.

MyPhone new network service allows users 200 MB of online storage, through which they can synchronize with mobile phone contacts, appointments, tasks, SMS, photos and video. The expanded package of premium service also allows you to delete the contents of your phone, a cell block or run the ring in the camera - even when the phone is set to "quiet" mode. Until the first use of the MyPhone service is free, then for each operation will need to pay an unspecified sum for the time being.

Turn running the Windows Marketplace, Microsoft is following the footsteps of many other manufacturers of devices and operating systems, which requires to set up a central store of programs for the platform. Windows Marketplace for Mobile lets you download free and paid programs using the Live ID login, but for now still is not in him too many programs. By the end of the store to be opened also for devices running Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1.