New Windows Mobile 7 screenshot looks unchanged from two years ago

Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 is now available as a beta on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The Marketplace is only available on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, so not everyone can check out the new pocket office suite, but you can read a detailed list of features. But that’s not the most interesting piece of information to appear on the page…

For some reason, Microsoft also appears to have let slip some new information about Windows Mobile 7 on this page, too — a screenshot that seems to show the new operating system running the office suite beta. The screenshot wasn’t full-size and is long gone by now, but it does bear a close resemblance to the purported Windows Mobile 7 screenshots that appeared online at the beginning of October.

Those screenshots were found on an internal Microsoft PowerPoint presentation dated August 2009, and both those and this new image clearly follow the same design as the leaked Windows Mobile 7 screenshots we first saw all the way back in January 2008.

So, does this mean that when Windows Mobile 7 finally launches at the end of 2010, Microsoft will have spent the best part of three years simply polishing the same horrible user interface that’s plagued all previous versions of the operating system? Let’s hope not…

[via MobileTechWorld]