Windows Mobile 6, formerly codenamed "Crossbow",
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pocketpcfaq.com. Retrieved September 6, 2007. was the version of
Windows Mobile released on February 12, 2007 at the
3GSM World Congress 2007. It comes in three different versions: "Windows Mobile 6 Standard" for Smartphones (phones with touchscreens), "Windows Mobile 6 Professional" for Pocket PCs with phone functionality, and "Windows Mobile 6 Classic" for Pocket PCs without cellular radios.
Windows Mobile 6 is powered by
Windows CE 5.0
Windows CE 5.0 (codenamed "Macallan") is a successor to Windows CE 4.2, the third release in the Windows CE .NET family. It was first released on July 9, 2004. Like its predecessors, Windows CE 5.0 is marketed towards the embedded device marke ...
(version 5.2) and is strongly linked to the then newly introduced
Windows Live and
Exchange 2007 products.
Windows Mobile 6 Standard was first offered on the
Orange's SPV E650, while Windows Mobile 6 Professional was first offered on the O2's Xda Terra.
Aesthetically, Windows Mobile 6 was meant to be similar in design to the then newly released
Windows Vista. Functionally, it works much like its predecessor
Windows Mobile 5, but with improved stability.
Along with the announcement of
Office Mobile 6.1 with support for Office 2007 document formats (pptx, docx, xlsx); OneNote Mobile, a companion to
Microsoft Office OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking software developed by Microsoft. It is available as part of the Microsoft Office suite and since 2014 has been free on all platforms outside the suite. OneNote is designed for free-form information gathering ...
was added to most builds of WM6. In addition to the newly included programs with Office Mobile improvements were made to existing applications, such as
HTML email support in
Outlook Mobile. Many Windows Mobile users are enterprise users business environments were targeted. With ''Server Search'' on Microsoft Exchange 2007, Out of Office Replies with Microsoft Exchange 2007, and search ability for contacts in an
Exchange Server Address Book being implemented. To aid development for programmers
.NET Compact Framework
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v2 SP2 is now preinstalled with the OS. Developers and users also have access to
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition for storage and retrieval of information.
AJAX,
JavaScript, and
XMLDOM support were added to
Internet Explorer Mobile along with improved devicewide Internet Sharing. Communication abilities were further enhanced with a new Microsoft
Bluetooth Stack and
VoIP (Internet calling) support with
acoustic echo cancellation and
MSRT Audio Codec.
To improve security Microsoft added Storage Card Encryption so that encryption keys are lost if device is
cold-booted. Further updates, both security and feature wise, can now also be provided using Operating System Live Update
Among other improvements:
320x320 and 800x480 (WVGA)
screen resolution support (The S01SH or "Em One" by Sharp was the first and only device to have an 800x480 screen on WM5), Improved
Remote Desktop access (Available for only certain Pocket PCs), Customer Feedback option,
''Smartfilter'' for searching within programs and
Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) support for select operators.
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