Microsoft declined to confirm reports that smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.x will not be upgradable to Windows Phone 7 Series, its new operating system. Microsoft has made a point of enforcing strict hardware requirements for devices that run Windows Phone 7 Series, which one Microsoft executive reportedly suggested would prevent even newer devices such as the HTC HD2 from running the new operating system. Microsoft previously refused to confirm whether Windows Mobile would be rebranded as Windows Phones Classic once Windows Phone 7 Series is issued to the marketplace at the end of 2010.
– Microsoft refused to confirm widely circulated reports that smartphones
currently running Windows Mobile 6.x will not be upgradable to the new Windows
Phone 7 Series operating system.
Natasha Kwan, general manager of Microsofts Mobile Communications Business
in the Asia-Pacific region, is
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