For those of us that have Windows Mobile phones and use them daily we know that they have resource issues and tend to be slow once you get a few programs running in the background. But what if instead of it being a mobile phone operating system it was a Netbook operating system? How would it perform compared to Windows XP or Linux?
Over the last several months there has been an abnormally high rate of desktop operating systems getting installed on phones. And now it is going yet another direction with mobile phone operating systems getting installed to Netbooks. First came Android with it’s Linux roots getting installed and then the speculation of Palm Pre’s webOS being installed. Windows Mobile is now getting attention and speculation of Microsoft moving to a new mobile OS platform and possibly using a single platform for mobile and desktop operating systems.
Currently Windows Mobile is based on Windows Embedded CE which is more likened to Windows 95 and is in desperate need of an overhaul. Why would anyone ever want the mobile OS to be on a Netbook or any other computer? Because Windows Mobile can run on ARM processors, the new love child of Netbooks.
Mary-Jo Foley at ZDNet has some insider information that this might be the future path of Microsoft in an attempt to stay relevant and keep ahead of Android. While she believes that Android is the biggest threat to Windows Mobile I have to disagree, Linux is the biggest threat to Windows Mobile. Both Android and webOS are distributions of Linux that have been heavily customized and are getting a lot of love from users.
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