Leader in the operating systems market for computers, Microsoft faces, with its Windows Mobile, a much more intransigent dispute in the section of platforms for cell phones.

In the last two years, the company testified solid lunges of two of their largest competitors in the smartphone market: Apple, with the iPhone; and Google, responsible for the Android system.

The main manufacturers of cell phones of the world announced or it is already marketing apparel with the movable platform of Google–among them, HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung. To try to “stop” the progress of the competition, Microsoft launched last week a new version of Mobile Windows, the 6.5.

Among the main innovations, a more comprehensive interface that you look to use the system operable with the tip of the fingers in apparel with sensitive screens to the touch.

In cellular with versions previous of Mobile Windows, the use of the pen was practically indispensable, since the tiny contact areas in the screen demanded almost surgical precision to be reached. Another innovation of Mobile Windows 6.5 is the virtual store of programs Marketplace, following an initiate tendency for App Store, from Apple.

But the improvements were not enough to please the USA specialized press, which perpetrated a true verbal massacre against Mobile Windows 6.5 in the tests of new apparel published last week.

The critics concentrated on the verification that the 6.5 is not much more than a store bath in the previous version, the 6.1, and that Microsoft didn’t improve elements of Mobile Windows considered archaic for the current patterns.

Via Folha.