Mobile 6.5 gets illegal
release
Microsoft is fuming after its top secret new version of its
Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system was pickpocketed at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona.
The phone was on loan to Telstra chief executive Sol
Trujillo who was at the conference and testing it out, but it seems that it was
in the hands of another Telstra executive at the time of the theft.
If the
pickpocket knows anything about technology then it is possible to make a fortune
on the black market with the phone and its new operating system.
Microsoft
wants Windows Mobile 6.5 to give it an edge over new competitors such as the
iPhone and Google's Android operating system. The delightfully understated
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5 for the
first time at the congress this week and it should be in the shops in June.
A
spokeswoman for Microsoft played down the whole thing saying that its loss will
not impact Redmond in anyway. Apparently pickpocketing, theft and street
crime are so bad at the congress, organisers are thinking of moving it to
another city.