Windows Mobile 6 Details RevealedWindows Mobile 6 Details Revealed

I was eating dinner when my colleague, Eric Zeman, pinged me with a text message: Get to a PC and post something about Windows Mobile 6. The news just broke.

As an always-on tech blogger, I ran from my plate of tacos to my laptop to check it out. Lo and behold, he was right. The curtain has finally opened on Microsoft's newest mobile OS. Let's check out the upgrades.Windows Mobile 6 -- the mobile platform formerly known as Crossbow -- features a number of changes. To start with, the platform once called Pocket PC Phone Edition is now called Windows Mobile 6 Professional and the scaled-down version, Smartphone, is now dubbed Windows Mobile Standard. Pocket PCs are now Windows Mobile Classic.

Windows Mobile 6 is, as you probably guessed, tightly integrated with Vista. The new operating system also is more integrated with Windows Office. For instance, Outlook users can now view e-mail attachments, like photos.

Windows Mobile 6 also features tighter integration with Windows Live services, including Hotmail, Messenger, and push e-mail access.

Engadget broke down the rest of the upgrades:

Microsoft will likely reveal more about Windows Mobile 6 next week at 3GSM in Barcelona. Stay tuned.