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Windows Mobile 7’s 1000 strong team

Windows Mobile 7is late, really late. But in the shadows of Redmond, Ballmer is forming an army of sla….developers to finish the mobile OS in time for 2010…

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Windows Mobile 7is late, really late. But in the shadows of Redmond, Ballmer is forming an army of sla….developers to finish the mobile OS in time for 2010 (you never know..it could be delayed again to 2011..) More seriously, according to Paul Spain who attended TechEd in New Zealand last week:

One of the interesting facts that was announced during TechEd this week in New Zealand was that there now is a team of 1000 people working on Windows Mobile 7. That’s a fairly sizable team and suggests to me that Microsoft are really going to pull something solid out of the bag for this release next year.

One can only hope that it is going to be worth it…

Source: GeekZone via twitter

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