Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, statedon the 24th February during the Microsoft Strategic Update that Microsoft is investing more time in research and development than Apple and confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will be out in 2010. 

We’re extending, though, we’re extending our offer to include not only the core platform, but applications and services. We’ve made a nice release announcement last week of 6.5. We’ve got Windows Mobile 7 coming next year. We’re getting more and more synergy with Windows, so the browser improvements, et cetera, should be quite rapid. 

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