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Ultrabrief: Microsoft Canada slips up and mentions “Windows Phone 7″

Categories: Windows Phone
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 10:12 AM

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Microsoft needs to pull a dinosaur out of a magic hat to impress everyone at Mobile World Congress. The next version of Windows Mobile, or Windows Phone, or whatever you want to call it, is supposed to save the company’s ass, and if it doesn’t … well then it’s simply more money that goes inside the pocket’s of RIM, Apple, Nokia.

With less than 100 hours until the show, we don’t really know much about Windows Mobile 7. Sure there are rumours, but it’s too close to the unveiling for anyone to really care. Knowing Microsoft, they’ll have plenty of videos online showcasing the new UI, the engineers who developed it, a terrible commercial for it, and Steve Ballmer will say something so awkward and so funny that his sound bite will get copy and pasted across the net.

What we do know, with 100% certainty, is that the next version of Windows Mobile will be called Windows Phone 7. Microsoft Canada accidentally put some information on their site mentioning it and it has since been removed. Microsoft Kitchen was quick enough to grab these screenshots while the info was still up:

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Ahmed Eltawil

    Microsoft needs to do something with their extra long brandings.

    Examples: Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Mobile 6.5

    Why? I am thankful they got the Zune branding right…although I am not so much fond of the name.

  • Slimer

    TPull something out. Microsoft is the only company that has access to business servers, a cloud, a mobile OS, a 93% market share of PC operating systems, the best development tools, data center software, point of sale, XBox…

    I cannot believe that they have to “pull anything”. The company has a hold on more IT related technologies than any other company on the planet.

    Aplle and google have to SQL technology. Apple and google are now being sued by Oracle as they have purchased Sun.

    Artiucles like this are written by journalists with no real idea of the topology of the ENTIRE technological front.

    They dont have to do anything.