Windows Mobile 6 free to PDA manufacturers issuing upgrades

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Did anyone else catch this quiet announcement?

"It looks like Microsoft's making it a little bit easier for manufacturers to release updates to Windows Mobile 6. The company is giving free licenses to any vendors who issue upgrades for their devices. Just because the license is free doesn't mean manufacturers won't charge the consumer. Customizing Windows Mobile 6 for each device is still a lot of work."

Hopefully this should stop HTC from saying that the reason they are not planning to offer WM6 upgrades for existing phones is due to "licensing issues". Although, they will probably just come up with some other excuse. 8^(

John

Source: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02...uing-upgrades/

Yes, it has been posted several times, but thank you for the information. As you mention this has not been the norm in the past.

Another Internet rumour...

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Turns out that this story was not entirely true. See http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12837.

John