Office Mobile 2010 is rumoured for Windows Mobile 6.5

Seriously, why are they bothering?

The only time I see Win Mob these days is on those large handheld devices carried by delivery people who ask you to digitally sign for something in a little window which always results in an unintelligible scrawl that looks nothing like the signature you've just carefully written.

Winmo has a larger market share % of the smartphone relm then Linux and Mac OS do of the Desktop market. Should they then give up? Up until recently, the apple store handheld point of sales devices used winmo or winCE. Winmo has been around for a long time, and will continue existing for at least a few years more, no matter how much ridicule you and your ilk despense. Now if the Winmo peeps dont develop a way to differentiate themselve, then they may need to go away and save MS some money.

In reply to Mr Sigh, above, Gartner and other analysts believe Windows Mobile will be discontinued in the next year or so.

The reason is that mobile handset makers are scrambling to dump it, and move to Google's Android instead.

Sony-Ericsson has now made its final Windows Mobile handset, the X2. Future ones will be Android (such as the coming Xperia X10). Samsung will be severely reducing the percentage of Windows Mobile phones compared to other platforms. Palm dumped Windows Mobile completely. Motorola dumped Windows Mobile completely, and has switched to Android.

The Windows Mobile platform is in fact already dead.

It's good but only because HTC have their own GUI and default to using Opera for the web browsing. Also Windows has a huge amount of software for it.

However there are bugs and flaws.

Eg1: Once it goes past midnight the phone takes 5s-10s for the screen clock to respond.

Eg2: Text messages, unable to reply or forward a message. Which is a joke. You can follow txts like a conversation but you cannot reply, instead you have to leave the conversation view and go to main txt screen, then select the text without going into it, then you can select Reply. Seriously, it's a friggin joke.

There are other lame ass bugs like this.

Windows Update - Doesn't FCUKING work! There are several updates from HTC themselves but my carrier ORANGE doesn't provide any updates to my handset. If I install the updates then my phone may not work correctly, as I've read about on forums.

So there you have it. Windows Mobile is buggy and my carrier doesn't even forward the patches.

Security Updates - Again these are not pass forward by Microsoft or Orange. Clicking on Updates comes back with error connecting with MS server.

MS, seriously please fix and update your operating system for mobile phones. And FORCE the carriers to pass on these updates.

I do like my phone, it's one of the best of it's type, but its flawed with bugs that should never have passed testing.

As an administrator that has multiple mobile carriers and operating systems to handle within our company (in the U.S.) I can say with absolute certainty that ALL the carriers are equally bad and ALL operating systems have their bugs. And there are too many to list here.
But I can also say that when it comes to connecting, synchronizing and being at peace with the home office (pun intended), then Windows Mobile has the least problems. This perspective from the server side AND the client side.

The GUI is not the only thing of importance in a smartphone. The amount of times the user of the phone has to go to the administrator because something doesn't work as advertised is also important. At least it is in the corporate world that runs mainly Microsoft. (which is most)

Least complaints are from the Windows Mobile useres. Second least are from Blackberry users.

Most complaints are from the iPhone users with Android users not far behind.

I understand this opinion is purely from the "corporate admin world", so please accept that in context.

$20 says it'll run from Firefox on your PC when you use a WinMo browser string :P

I think your eg2 occurs as a result of the HTC GUI. I've got wm6.1 on my Imate 8150 - they never bothered to put any skins on and the company itself died but that's another story. :P There's a reply box at the bottom of the threaded conversation.
No SMS forwarding though... (though I can't really think of a situation where that would be viable within 160 characters and also explaining that it is a forwarded message)

My orbit 2 (Win 6.1) can forward AND reply to texts...
It doesn't crash, it just works...
Now if the buttons were bigger...

Also an WinMo 6.1 phone, everything works as advertised and is good looking too on this model.

The thing that blows me away is that Android is now the biggest Hype but when you see it and use it, it shows a number of weird things.

One for instance is that multidesktop thing. You can drag stuff on the desktop but who really wants big clunky apps that sometimes use only 2/3 of the screen, and you can't utilize the rest 1/3 'cause nothing fits there. And if it does fit it is strange looking and not ergonomical. You actually need some order so you can remember where stuff is and use it fast, not go through UI searching.

I say that because it was one of the biggest selling points on numerous videos, but I was completely let down by the deployment.

I guess that people who use it either spent a lot of time setting it to their liking or don't care - one of those who have chaos on their desktop and don't care :P