Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants.
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12 Facts About Windows Mobile
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The last version of Windows Mobile, released after the announcement of Windows Phone, was 6.
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Windows Mobile is based on the Windows CE kernel and first appeared as the Pocket PC 2000 operating system.
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Windows Mobile 95 had strong pen support making porting easy; with some saying "At this time, Windows Mobile 95 offers outstanding pen support.
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Upgrades to the bundled version of Office Windows Mobile include a spell checker and word count tool in Pocket Word and improved Pocket Outlook.
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Windows Mobile 5 comes with Microsoft Office Mobile which includes PowerPoint Mobile, Excel Mobile with graphing capability and Word Mobile with the ability to insert tables and graphics.
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Aesthetically, Windows Mobile 6 was meant to be similar in design to the then newly released Windows Vista.
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Windows Mobile was projected in 2005 to overtake Symbian to become the leading mobile OS by 2010.
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In Q3 2004, Windows Mobile surpassed Palm OS to become the largest PDA operating system.
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Windows Mobile saw year over year growth between 2005 and 2006 of 38.
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The New York Times reported in 2009 that Windows Mobile "is foundering", as cellphone makers desert it in favor of Google's Android phone platform.
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