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Even though lots of business observers obsessed this week over a report that claimed Microsoft will offer you two unique Windows Mobile variations to telephone makers inside the coming year, they glossed over the actual news. If Digitimes;s August 19 tale is right, Windows Mobile seven is running about a half-year behind timetable.Sure, I understand that Microsoft hasn;t provided publicly a ship-date target for Windows Cellular 7. And when there;s no target, nobody can declare it;s operating late. Perfect?Incorrect. Microsoft has talked privately about delivering Windows Cellular seven code to telephone makers this drop,Office Professional 2010, so that new Windows Mobile seven phones could hit the market about April 2010. I;ve noticed a roadmap with those dates,Office 2010 Professional Plus, and UX Evangelist blogger Stephen Chapman unearthed a Microsoft slide deck from April 2009 with those exact same dates. Right here;s a slide from that deck, courtesy of Chapman:Digitimes is citing Taiwanese handset makers claiming that Microsoft is now hoping to obtain them code in time to obtain Windows Cellular seven phones to marketplace through the finish of calendar 2010, which is going to be a year-plus immediately after the stop-gap Windows Cellular 6.5 release hits the marketplace.The slip,Office 2010, if it really is real, contradicts Microsoft officials; claims in the finish of July that the Windows Cellular group has lastly began getting the trains running promptly. The exact quote, courtesy of Amusement and Gadgets unit President Robbie Bach (at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting):“Windows Mobile six.five shipped inside four days of its original ship date when we sent it to the hardware manufacturers. That;s an amazing performance in any marketplace, and in a marketplace where you are talking about phones, which is a rather complicated release process, we are fairly proud of that. And I think you;re gonna see as we go forward into the future, see our execution rhythm both pick up and the quality of that execution rhythm improve.”As far as the alleged dual-platform strategy for Windows Mobile — via which Microsoft is said to become readying another version of Windows Mobile for early 2010 which will add support for capacitive touch screens — I;m not surprised. Microsoft execs hinted a month or so ago that the group was looking for a way to add additional touch support to Windows Mobile beyond what will ship as part of Windows Cellular 6.five. I wouldn;t be surprised to see a “Windows Mobile six.5B” that is going to be optimized for phones with capacitive screens.Microsoft execs won;t talk about Windows Cellular seven at all,Windows 7 Activation, so I wasn;t able to obtain them to comment on Digitimes; report. Spring 2010 seemed late for Microsoft to get shipping the oft-delayed Windows Mobile 7 release. But end of 2010 for a platform designed to compete, feature-wise, with the iPhone,Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, spells serious trouble for the beleaguered Windows Mobile online business.Anyone have any theories or information about whether the Windows Cellular seven delay is, in fact, actual? And if it can be, what led to it?