The team from Microsoft’s Windows Mobile crew perhaps realized with the evolution of the mobile platform, they needed to step up the pace a bit. Some had started to call this vaporware, which is something MS couldn’t afford to let happen.
But the release is on the horizon: they’ve announced the availability of emulators and documentation for Internet Explorer Mobile 6, a new mobile browser to watch out for in the Windows Mobile platform. It’s supposed to introduce some fairly significant improvement in the mobile web experience.
Expected changes: Improved multimedia (Flash) support, multiple zoom settings, deeper search integration, better script and AJAX support, and full touch/gesture support among them.
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 will be made available on new Windows Mobile devices “soon,” but it wasn’t specified how soon in the announcement. They’re promising a high-quality browsing experience with the said mobile web browser, but as always, we’ll have to see it for ourselves to believe. With Microsoft, nothing is a given. But the new changes do sound very promising.
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