With Microsoft gearing up for Windows Mobile 6.5 to officially hit the market, training material for partners and advertisement templates, banners, etc. are being made available. Amongst all this content, there is one bit of material in particular from June 2009 that caught my eye: Windows Phone Cobrand Guidelines

Yes, right on Microsoft’s servers, there is a set of guidelines which teaches partners how to make the sell and do it by Microsoft’s book. In a section labeled, “Communicating to Customers,” there’s a subdivision labeled, “use only when necessary.” The content in that section is a breakdown of how partners should get down to brass tacks if need be with the customer. When discussing how they should go about discerning Windows Mobile versions, they give a nod to Windows Mobile 7 as seen here:

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Contoso is a fictitious company name used by Microsoft to represent anything from non-existent products to examples for how to use products already on the market. As such, the Contoso Alpha and Contoso Zeta phones mentioned are purely fictitious. Again, though it isn’t much, this is just another non-public mention of Windows Mobile 7 by Microsoft. I suppose the next step will actually be a build in between 6.5 and 7, though. As always, I’ll be sure to post whatever I can dig up!

Source: Windows Phone Cobrand Guidelines on Microsoft’s Website

-Stephen
http://msftkitchen.com

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