Back To The Future: Windows On Phones

In an article titled “Windows Phone 8 Is Dead Already,” Mobility Digest does some tea leaf reading and concludes that because of Microsoft’s recent announcements about Windows support for ARM, they don’t think there will be a new major release of Windows Phone. Instead, says Mobility Digest, Microsoft will release a full version of Windows that will run on smartphones.

I think that Mobility Digest has read way to much into Microsoft’s ARM announcement. Truth is, we have already seen Windows for smartphones and handheld PCs, it was called Windows CE, or in it’s various iterations: Handheld PC, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile.

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