The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer confirmed in a press conference that Windows Mobile 7 will come on the market next year. The operating system will be sent to manufacturers this November. This means we will see on devices in April 2010 at the earliest. And what about Windows Mobile 6.5 in the meantime? We wonder what are the specifications required for Windows Mobile 7, and if it will provide stability and a revolutionary user experience?

Some of you probably remember, there was a time when Microsoft delivered free with its operating systems an antivirus software. Microsoft Anti-Virus (MSAV), introduced with MS-DOS 6.0, was relatively crude, but it deserves to exist.

Microsoft has since lost the habit of providing with its OS an antivirus software, leaving even for many years this market. It was not until May 2006 to see an antivirus software – not free this time – at Microsoft, Windows Live OneCare.

Microsoft should abandon it during the second quarter of 2009 for the benefit of “Morro”, an antivirus suite, and this time free. Morro, as announced necessarily lighter and efficient than Live OneCare, should be compatible with Windows XP, Vista and even the future Windows 7.

We suspected as much, but Steve Ballmer himself confirmed the information: yes, there is indeed a version of Windows Mobile 6.5. We don’t know something about this future version, except that the interface will be reviewed, we will be entitled to integrating the Zune software and should be available during the first quarter of 2009. It was time…

Finally the multi-touch for Windows 7! Finally, the manipulation is possible through third-party software, and has been tested on the first beta of the new Windows. We wait the final versions with impatience!

Steven Sinofsky, vice president of Windows and Windows Live department at Microsoft acknowledges that the UAC (User Account Control) was (and still is not) not optimal and its default is to be gone too far. Also according S. Sinofsky, the reason for the establishment of the UAC was to better protect the user, and this attention is commendable, but the establishment still suffers from flaws of youth.

It is now official that Microsoft says that the UAC is too intrusive, and it is one of the elements that will be reviewed and corrected in Windows Seven. Moreover, in pre-beta version of the new operating system, there are already four levels of settings for UAC. Proof that Microsoft can also recognize and correct its errors.

The CEO of Motorola, Sanjay Jha, has said too much. Or not enough. In any case, it has clearly mentioned the existence of a version 6.5 of Windows Mobile, which suggests that Microsoft is not yet ready to launch a version 7, which would still paired with Windows 7…

Motorola will therefore propose a mobile phone based on that version 6.5 in the second quarter of 2009. Stay tuned…

It is also at the PDC that Microsoft announced that the version 14 of Microsoft Office will also be online, to titillate a little Google Docs. The desktop applications are Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and editing documents will be part of the course without forgetting the versioning. And finally, the new Web Apps would be compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

Some images gleaned from the website of Cnet of a Build 6801, it did not refuse huh? In all cases, we can not say that the transition from Vista to Windows 7 is too steep that it could be between XP and Vista…

Meanwhile tomorrow (you obviously noted on your small calendars that tomorrow Windows 7 will be unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles…), here are some last-minute details about Windows 7. We can therefore expect a “Device Stage”, a sort of control panel for each device connected to your PC (printer, camera, MP3 players…), allowing you to manage, to explore the content, sync, etc… It appears that the devices will be “Device Stage enabled”. It is already less funny…

Second point, the “Action Center”, a “troubleshooting center”. Need further explanation? It continues with the “StreamOn” which would manage the multimedia content on PCs and other devices, a new animated framework, like what is happening with Apple, a new taskbar, support for multi-touch and gestures, an improved management of Bluetooth, and integrated ribbons everywhere (in the way of Office). We’ll see that all tomorrow …

In any case it’s confirmed, since some manufacturers of hardware and software are already in the process of benefit. It remains to be seen when that SP2 will be proposed. Before or after the release of Windows 7, which if all goes well land on next June 3? Too many outstanding …