Ballmer's commitment to accelerate the development of Windows Mobile upgrade

Åœ — äº¬æ — March 5, noon news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer · (Steve Ballmer) on Wednesday said, Microsoft hopes to speed up Windows Mobile upgrade development to respond from Apple and RIM's competition.

Ballmer said: "we have the opportunity to speed up research and development in this area," and "we've done a lot of work to ensure that we have a can accelerate the development of the Windows Mobile team".

Microsoft recently said, later this year will upgrade Windows Mobile.

Prior to this, because has not improved Windows Mobile platform and not better with iPhone and other touch screen phones competitive, Microsoft has been criticized.

An IT person in CIO Summit asked Ballmer: how to handle employee will Android G1 mobile phone iPhone to workplace problems? some phones do not meet some of the Organization's security requirements, and the user does not like to meet the security requirements of Windows Mobile.

Ballmer said that Microsoft is facing a challenge is that Windows Mobile supports a variety of specifications, "this can service more users", "the question is how to make Windows Mobile can be used in more specifications of the phone."

Ballmer said that Microsoft is working to simplify the software license terms, but it is not easy, "simplify us always means cancel some features, but each feature might be a specific user's favorite.

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Ballmer also reiterated that, despite the poor economic environment, Microsoft plans to continue with the same level of r&d investment.

He also said that other IT industry enterprises will do. The total decline of risk capital means that a particular technology reduce the number of competitors, but the technology will eventually go to market.

Ballmer also on Windows 7 have high hopes.

He said his 14-year-old son has been at the home computer and school computer installed Windows 7, "a 14-year-old is a very critical age, we passed this test."