March 2010 is when Microsoft will announce their plans for Windows Mobile 7. This date has been confirmed by Microsoft Office Vice President Kurt Delbene as he told Neowin.com. This correlates with our earlier post that WM 7 will be RTM in March 2010. Also, in light of Microsoft using the Office Mobile 7 Mock Up on their website, this shows that nothing can stay leak free forever.

Found via WMPoweruser.com

In what appears as another nod towards confirming how Windows Mobile 7 will look like when it is released next year, Microsoft has posted the Office Mobile 7 UI concept that we reported on a few weeks back on their main Office website as a screen shot of Office Mobile 2010. The image can be found on this page, although we are unsure how much longer it will be up. Huge tip of the hat to Stephen Chapman who originally reported this on his site, MSFTKitchen.com.

This is yet another confirmation that this will indeed be the layout of Windows Mobile 7 when it is released. Only time will tell as we get closer to the scheduled release.

Below is how it looks on their site.

While we’ve heard rumors of Zune integration coming to Windows Mobile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed it, stating that it will be coming in the next version of Windows. There’s no confirmation as to exactly what features will be included, but this could be what it takes for WinMo to catch up to the iPhone and Android.

The next question is whether we have to wait until WM7 of if we’ll see it in the WM6.5.1 (community branded title) branch. While WM6.5 has been released, Microsoft is clearly working on an upgrade to it already, as seen in our community and XDA with the newest leaked WM6.5 builds with more finger-friendly features. Only time will tell.

Source: Endgadget via IntoMobile

The guys over at WMExperts have gotten their hands on what appears to be a mockup of WM7. WM6.5 is on the top with the WM7 images on the bottom.

If this is real, it looks as though Microsoft is finally making progress on making WM more finger-friendly and making some cosmetic changes to the GUI instead of just making everything large and ugly (like some of the leaked WM6.5 have looked).

Source: WMExperts via  PocketNow

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