Microsoft Windows Mobile 7

Microsoft has its Windows Mobile 7 software, a new mobile operating system with a range of music, games and networking features of “hubs”, as the software giant to rival Apple and Google grouped lost ground in the competitive smartphone market. Microsoft announcement on the eve of the biggest annual gathering of industry, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The company said that Windows Mobile 7 is a brand new “dynamic screen, so users Favorite icons, and six” hubs “that combine business services from installing as a” people “hub for the Group E – mails, SMS messages and updates from social networking and “games” hub that an Xbox Live account, and lets players battle online.

While the global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent, analysts expect sales to 46 percent this year, strong competition from rival Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s Blackberry, Nokia Symbian and newcomer Google Android platforms, the companies have market share eroded from 7 to 9 percent more than in the third quarter, compared with 11.1 percent in the same period one years ago.

Microsoft makes any handset manufacturers Windows Mobile interface to change, so free that the user experience worse, because no two work the same way. Meanwhile, Apple hardware and software tightly bound to ensure a more uniform and better usability.

“We were also flexible, a focus at the expense of end users,” said Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President Windows Mobile.

The software that one years later than expected, Microsoft is now trying to win consumers. The company hopes the descent through the creation of a number of requirements for its smart phones, such as permanent keys reversed for the “home”, “Search” and “Back” has a high-resolution touch-screen display similar to that on the iPhone and a 5.0-megapixel camera with flash on the back of the unit.

Microsoft said the first phones with the new software in stores for Christmas. Windows Mobile partners, including carrier AT & T and the German telecom and Orange handset makers HTC, LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.