Windows Mobile 6 unveiled

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft revealed the next version of its smartphone operating system Windows Mobile 6 which is becoming more and more independent operating system for mobile devices that has developed into a platform solution.

According to Microsoft, Windows Mobile 6 comes with a new mobile productivity suite that includes Word Mobile, Excel Mobile and Powerpoint Mobile. It has a definitely more corporate focus, with collaboration functionality that takes advantage of a company's address book, email management that uses new features in Exchange Server 2007, support for Microsoft's Line-of-Business applications (based on the .NET framework and/or SQL server), as well as the ability to and gain access to information stored on Exchange Server, SharePoint, Universal Naming Convention (UNC) file shares and a lot more.

Windows Mobile 6 is expected to be released in the second quarter of this year.