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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
...Now comes the injury: apparently Microsoft developers were unable to code something that would work on current generation hardware because it just didn't have enough grunt. The really "underpowered" HTC Touch Pro, with its 524 Mhz CPU and 288 MB of RAM, just couldn't handle this "monster" browser. I'm not a developer, but come on Microsoft - if mobile browsers like Opera Mobile and Skyfire can work on our devices today, why can't IE Mobile 6? This whole issue just makes my blood pressure raise - from the outside looking in, it looks like Microsoft just didn't realize that mobile browsing was important until it was too late. |
Microsoft is lying or at least purposely deceiving.
The only way to test the browser on real hardware would be to install it on current devices - there aren't any better devices at the moment, so saying that it doesn't run on current HW is a lie.
Unless of course they haven't tested the program on actual hardware at all - which would be even worse as far as I'm concerned.
Also for what is worth (and yes I realize Thoughts Media doesn't want to encurage discussions about it), but the IE Mobile 6 is already running in some cooked ROMs not only on current devices but also on current WM 6.1. Unless Microsoft has another better and more powerful version of IE Mobile 6 than again there is no truth in their statements.
And lastly - the new devices in 2009 will have 800MHz or even 1GHz CPUs and I guess more RAM/Flash, but that will only be some high end devices, I'm sure there will be a bunch of WM devices released in 2009 with pretty much the specs as they are now - so will we have a Vist/XP situation here, where high end devices will get WM 6.5 and IE Mobile 6 and "normal" devices will stay stuck with WM 6.1 and PIE?