Windows Mobile 7 And Social Networking

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Windows Mobile 7 and Social Networking

"Little official information is known about Windows Mobile 7 so far (though there's no shortage of unconfirmed speculation). The mobile operating system is expected to debut sometime next fall, about a year after next month's Windows Mobile 6.5 release. Some blog postings suggest as many as 1,000 Microsoft employees may already be working on the system's development.

Perhaps the most concrete company-endorsed clue to date, however, is what's revealed in the newly published Microsoft job description. The position, called senior program manager for Windows Mobile, is one of about a hundred Windows Mobile-related jobs that come up on a search of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices job site. Per the posting:

" 'Social networks' and 'mobile phones' are two rapidly evolving socio-cultural phenomena that deeply impact the way in which people interact with each other. How would you like to be at the confluence of these phenomena, not as an observer but as someone who is defining the course?

"The Windows Mobile 7 Communications group is building experiences on the phone that present your content -- friends, pictures, messages, events -- to you in immersive and engaging ways. Our vision is to bring social networks to life by integrating them into the core experience of the phone. For example, imagine seeing all the newsfeeds from all the networks you care about in a single hub on the phone. Or imagine the phone instantly telling you what your friend is doing and where he is when you get a call from him."

More details at PCWorld - http://www.pcworld.com/article/172188/wind...g_phone_os.html