Windows Mobile was a family of operating systems that Microsoft developed for smartphones and personal digital assistants. It grew out of Windows CE and the Pocket PC platform, and it was released in various versions, with a layout resembling the desktop version of Windows, a Start menu and stylus-based controls. It was widely used on devices from makers such as HTC, Dell and Palm in the 2000s, and it supported Office apps and corporate email. It lost ground after the arrival of the iPhone in 2007 and of Android, and Microsoft replaced it with Windows Phone, which itself was discontinued in the late 2010s.
Before and after
- 2nd millenniumRise of consumerism
- 6 January 2000The last Pyrenean ibex dies and is later cloned
- from 9 March 2000 to 26 September 2003Launch of Nupedia
- 10 March 2000Dot-com bubble
- 19 April 2000Creation of Windows Mobile
- 11 May 2000Construction of Tate Modern
- 26 June 2000The first draft of the human genome is announced
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 1 July 2000Construction of Øresund Bridge
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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