Internet Explorer Mobile 6

Today at Tech•Ed EMEA we announced the availability of emulators and documentation for Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which is the next generation browser for Windows Mobile. Available on new Windows Mobile devices soon, this browser will provide a high-quality browsing experience on your device that more closely resembles a desktop browsing experience. For all you developers, the Windows Mobile 6.1.4 Emulator Images are available. This package adds emulator images to Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 that let you test applications for Windows Mobile 6.1.4, including Internet Explorer Mobile 6.

   

Some of the cool features available with Internet Explorer Mobile 6 are:

• Improved fidelity (support for full fidelity desktop rendering)
• Layout fixes to accommodate a mobile screen (text wrap)
• Enhanced Script and AJAX support  (Jscript v5.7 from Internet Explorer 8)
• Improved multimedia experience (Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 for Adobe Flash content)
• Deeper integration with search
• Enhanced cursor navigation model
• Touch and gesture support – pan support
• Multiple zoom levels
• Easy switching between mobile / desktop versions of sites by specifying UA strings.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 11, 2008
  Any news on when we could expect PIE6 to be made available?

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  I don't want to sound harsh, but bringing the engine of Internet Explorer 6 back from 2001 doesn't seem like a good deal to me. It's much better than what we have now, sure, but it pales in comparison with Opera 9.5 (available now on many HTC devices and Sony Xperia). It doesn't make much sense to me asking developers to download this engine and test their current 2008-2009 code against a 2001 browser and bringing back the problems we had with it. I don't want to sound bitter, just trying to ring some bells about this fact.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
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  November 12, 2008
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  November 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  <blockquote>Check out Skyfire as it seems to render anything you can throw at it.  However there is no wifi support so 3G is pretty much a neccessity.</blockquote> What?  Skyfire works fine over wifi.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Skyfire does support WiFi, thats the only way I use it.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Look... I'll take what I can get and welcome PIE6 in a heartbeat over what I have with the current PIE, but I sure hope that WM7 brings the IE7 or IE8 engine along with it. The emulator is great to demonstrate how it works, so I'll take the new usability aspect, but the rendering engine is still a lot to be desired on complex sites.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  What about existing WM6.1 devices?

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  And why isn't this being offered on WM Windows Update? What is the point of WU on your phone if you guys are never ever going to use it?

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  @Khush I'm running the emulator, testing my code. It contains a webbrowser control, but the content seems to be rendered through the old version of internet explorer not  the new one. For example the new, native browser shows a context menu with 'Full Page' and 'Zoom Out', has smooth zooming, page preview and touch events. But the webbrowser control doesn't seem to have all of this. Is this by design, or will it change in the release version?

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Khush, If "the rich media experiences that IE Mobile 6 enables require more powerful, advanced devices" then how come other browsers such as Opera can offer the same (or perhaps better) experiences on current devices and even some older devices? What is the sort of device spec are you envisaging PIE6 to require?

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  It's too bad it won't be released as an upgrade.  It shuts out a lot of WinMo6 users that have put out a lot of money on the most current handsets.  

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Vincent - This is by design and the key reason behind this is to ensure that we don't break current users of the hosted web browser control. At this point, we have not formulated a plan to expose IE Mobile 6 as a hosted control.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  That's why HTC start bundling with opera browser, that piece of software is upgradable! and make sense for software.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  When is the browser going to be "upgraded" to support streaming media sights.  For instance try loading http://webclust1.liquidcompass.cc/sos4stnrd/audio_player.php?id=KOZN on your mobile phone.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  link Internet Explorer Mobile 6.pdf don't work :(

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Dear Khush, As a shareholder in your company (Microsoft) and software developer, I always like when new exciting products are coming out from you. But I do not understand why on earth it is, that you don't want to reach an audience as broad as possible? "Only available to new phones"

• did you also run this strategy back in the good old browser-war days with Netscape? - I cannot recall any statements like "IE is only available to newer computers", and you certainly did not stop people from downloading newer versions of the browser back then. WM, iPhone, Symbian are fighting about market shares on the mobile platform and you continuously keep holding back updates that will improve WM marketshares. WM6 is painfully slow, and not very userfriendly (using HTC S730). WM6.1 is a slight improvement, but still not competitive with iPhone, Nokia or Sony Ericsson. I know that we can expect WM7 sometime in the future - but we still cannot update existing handhelds with the new WM7. Similarly WM Windows Update never contains any updates as far as I know. With multiple updates available on the PC platform via PC Windows Update, why don't you bring the same success to the mobile platform??? I think my comments deserve a response.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  This is laughable. Windows Mobile is really Windows 98 for Phones. No way could that OS run IE7 or even 6 well for that matter. MS. Give up on WM6. The time that the developers spent working on this add on could have been spent on making WM7 something that will be out in 2009 (yeah right) and something that can hold a candle to the iPhone.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Microsoft is doing a terrible job on WM, Microsoft thought that the market was going to stall if they did not make any improvements and you failed miserably on WM. Apple in a few years has surpass your wildest dreams, and Android is catching up. Mr. Balmer is criticizing Andriod, but the interface, and the engine are much better than the one WM. I agree with efjay you should leave the mobile market and focus on fixing Vista before Linux, and Apple take the control of the desktop and portable market out of your hands. You are wasting shareholder money investing in Mobile and search, you should re-focus your goals and mission statement.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  I tested the new IE Mobile JavaScript engine by running the jquery test suite (http://jquery.com/test) and it doesn't seem to work at all. Please make sure the JavaScript support equals the support on existing desktop browsers (and mobile browsers from other vendors).

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  All, before you complain about how outdated the new browser engine apparently is, would you first try it out, please, using the emulator images provided by us, and compare how it renders your favorite web sites compared to your other favorite mobile browser(s)? Would you please note that it comes with the latest JScript v. 5.7 library from IE8 Beta? And would you please take into account that it is unreasonable to expect the full IE8 engine & capabilities on devices with a 500 MHz CPU, and a memory model which limits the virtual memory available to a process to 32 MB? Great work, IE Mobile team, we have been waiting for this for some time... :-) Thanks, Frank

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  This is getting a bit out of topic. The first responsible to bring IE6 Mobile are manufacturers and carriers. Surely there are agreements with carriers that MS can't ignore. If a manufacturer decides to release an updated Windows Mobile 6.1.4 ROM (which includes IE6 Mobile) for a particular device, that's their choice, and we should ask them in first place I think. But blaming current devices for not being powerful... I expect the audience of this blog to be well educated about current devices' capabilities. That explanation has no basis. So is a Touch Pro underpowered? Samsung Omnia? Any improvement for IE Mobile is welcome, but I fear it’s too little too late. I’ve seen the emulator working and I’m not too impressed.

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  Hi Please find a way to reduce the footprint of IEM6 so that it can be provided to owners of current WM6/6.1 handsets.  Your strategy is reminiscent of the Vista tragedy where people had to buy new hardware just to use Vista.  That strategy is bad for PR and it alienates current users if the platform.  I appreciate Microsoft not closing out 3rdPty developers and allowing an open environment for mobile applications, however, I am concerned that Microsoft's performing a balance of inexpedience and ineptitude to refine and improve its foundation is hurting users who really do like WM but don't like the current shortcomings of it nor the direction of development, if "development" is even a fair word to use at this time.

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  To the Windows Mobile team: Seriously guys, you are killing Windows Mobile.  Your comments of not making IE6 Mobile available as a separate download and only on new devices is just plain riduculous.  Windows Mobile is so far  behind the operating systems on other newcomers like IPhone & Android.  How come 3rd party developers produce a nice browser for EXISTING WM 6.1 devices but Microsoft can't?  You guys will be out of a job soon when Windows Mobile is dead and you will have no one but yourselves to blame.

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  I won't lose any sleep over your brainless decision to release this to new devices. The bright sparks over at XDA will undoubtedly come up with a way round this. Until then, I'll stick to Opera Mini thanks very much!

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  Xda already has a cab version.

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile 6.   It is not IE6 or IEM6 and is NOT tied to or based on IE6 in the strict sense that layman seem to think. It would be better to think of it as IE7-8 engine technology on Windows Mobile 6. PERIOD

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008

• Just glad I am not the only feeling that MS are making bad decisions on this one. I can not agree more, than to say, WM is one of the old guys, iPhone/Android are newcomers, but still miles ahead. Beat your competitors - don't laugh at them (like mr. Ballmer). Just to quote: "Skyfire is the best way to experience better mobile browsing on a Windows Mobile phone. " http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6_must_have_windows_mobile_app.php

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  Khush, This is a huge mistake not making the new IE available for previous devices.  If it requires more powerful devices then at the very least you can put a minimum spec out there.  There have to be at least a handful of new devices that can run it? If not, then I think you can just expect more people to go to Opera or Feneca.  Big mistake for MS. Tim

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  TheNetAvenger: I think you have mistaken. If you actually read the articles, you'd have realise that IE Mobile 6 is based off the rendering engine of IE6 and using the javascript engine of IE8b2. Windows Mobile Team: The problem seems to be that you are stuck in a rut that became apparent during the war against Netscape when the new ECMA Script standards were being developed. MS refused to make changes because it would break "current" apps while others were pushing for changes that would improve the entire web ecosystem. Unless MS makes a concerted effort to be part of the standard compliant community, the community would continue to be held back by having to make websites that handle the quirks from IE specific bugs. When will MS realise that if they follow the standards, then new developers will follow standards, then the web sites that they are trying to stop from breaking, won't break in the future, because they are finally following the same standards. Regards, L.

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  no idea why i need to download 3XXmb image, use more than 1gb space for testing your tiny iem6, and i can't even test it on my wm phone after it is for mobile phone. very funny, you guys makes a funny day to me, thank you.

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  Folks, Your concerns have definitely been heard and acknowledged. We are aware of the areas we need to improve on and we look to you for feedback that would help shape our future releases. There's not much I can say at this point but I do want to assure you that we're working hard to address the feedback we've received so far.   Khush

• Anonymous
  November 13, 2008
  ... "but I do want to assure you that we're working hard to address the feedback we've received so far. " .... (Khush) Hope for you guys, because, you have so much works!!

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  November 13, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 14, 2008
  Microsoft, Khush: I really hope you are making a prioritized effort to address the issues you have been reading in this thread. I'm not going to add my own thoughts, as they've essentially been voiced numerous times by my fellow Windows Mobile fans that have again been alienated by Microsoft. Ballmer: Get your act together and realize that you need to innovate and actually compete with up-and-coming competitors. Sitting back and hoping that your user-base will flock to your new products just because it's made by the "mighty" Microsoft is a huge mistake. The MS board is just as much to blame for letting you continue to lead MS down the tubes. Just remember, Motorola has been milking their massive installed user base and one-hit-wonder RAZR for so long that they've fallen behind up-and-coming manufacturers. Motorola is currently on the brink of being chased out of even their home market (USA) that they helped revolutionize. Is Microsoft going the path of Motorola?

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2008
  The fact it won't be released for existing devices isn't even an issue.  How long do ya'll really think it will take before  a download is available for older devices thru another website?  It wouldn't surprise me if a download is available BEFORE its officially released.

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2008
  Steve, "The fact it won't be released for existing devices isn't even an issue."

• well for us with shares in Microsoft, it is an issue - less market share = less company value = less money for the shareholders.

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2008
  "Internet Explorer Mobile 6" - Wow. That's like announcing that MS is finally bringing out a VHS video recorder. Does anyone from MS own an iPhone? Or a G1? Or indeed anything that doesn't run Windows Mobile? I guess the smart people in MS are trying to make Vista less of a fat torpid DRM-ridden rabid dog, and the less than smart MS people? They're on the Windows Mobile team. Pitiful.

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2008
  Hello, the new Internet Explorer has two views: desktop and mobile. Now we have the same old IE Mobile in the mobile view without support for modern programming models for the mobile web, e. g. Ajax implementations like ASP.NET AJAX 3.5. And the old IE 6 with the new Jscript v5.7 from Internet Explorer 8 which supports AJAX from Microsoft in the desktop view. Two questions: Why need owners of Windows Mobile devices two browsers, one for the mobile web and one for the desktop internet? Has someone of the Windows Mobile team tested this new browser with ASP.NET AJAX and other new  technologies?

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2008
  Hi, to WM team: You´ve been criticised a lot here, but nevertheless I believe in the future of WM. It´s true, providing PIE6 only for newer devices is a bit weird...But why do you complain, the rest of you should use Opera or another alternative browser. Why is everybody so keen on surfing with PIE ?!? I already flashed a ROM with PIE6 included and tested it a bit. Unfortunately, some big issues haven´t been improved. At least an adressbar that is as neat as Operas would have been good. Improving the rendering engine is a good thing as well but too little to catch up to Apple and Google. I hope PIE gets improved alongside with WM6.5 in terms of usability. regards, Martin

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2008
  Commencing July 2009, all websites we create are not going be supported under IE6's poor rendering engine. Unfortunately for Windows Mobile users, this means that the 'brand new' IE6 for WM will already be too old to view many new sites on the web. Why should PIE use any Trident (IE) rendering engine?  I hope the team at WM have considered creating PIE7 that uses WebKit for the rendering engine. We have had to support IE6 on the desktop for years because of its marketshare alone.  The PIE6 marketshare is not, and will not be large enough for many developers to bother.

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2008
  Does it really matter whether Microsoft release it for older devices? I've extracted it from the emulator ROM image, and it's running on a 195MHz processor. New hardware needed? I think not! The only possible reason why it would need better hardware, is if you add lots of code that does nothing but waste processor time (Vista for example). It has some nice features, but is nowhere near as good as Opera Mobile, or even Opera Mini! Also, for everyone preaching about Skyfire, all the pages are rendered on an external server, and then sent to the device in a Skyfire specific format, and this is displayed on the screen. This makes the device processor power virtually irrelevant as all it needs to do is display images on the screen.

• Anonymous
  November 17, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 17, 2008
  The same things happens strangely enough with other Microsoft produced mobile software. For example, this week everyone is talking about the new not yet available Google Voice Search. Well, Microsoft has had this for some years now running on Windows Mobile and Nokia and Blackbury devices but strangely enough the Nokia download is not available from anywhere. You have to get it from the manufacturer. Microsoft, why do you care about the manufacturers? Please put your software on your site so that we can download them. Don't waste our time and you effords waiting and waiting for the manufacturers. For my PC I can download anything I want. Why not for my mobile and why do you help in this state of affairs by making your mobile apps not available for download? Same story I guess as with the new Internet Explorer Mobile 6.

• Anonymous
  November 18, 2008
  I just ran the emulator images over the W3C Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers, and it's a bit embarrassing. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/3041236348

• Anonymous
  November 18, 2008
  We've been using the normal IE6 under WinCE for a couple of years.  It's been great to have that much power.

1.  Please figure out a way to expose IE6 as a control, instead of using the old version inside an app.  What are you thinking???   I don't care if I have to recompile for this.
2.  I tried to run up an app, but the new IE6 returns its screen size as something like 1039x.  Okay for desktop mode with scrolling, but in mobile mode it should return the ACTUAL SIZE OF THE SCREEN.   Otherwise apps won't know to change their size.   If you can't do this, then take a page from Apple and include some meta tags to do so.

• Anonymous
  November 18, 2008
  Dustin. How do you manage to get Skyfire to work over WiFi? Do you have a pocket pc with Wm6.1? Brian

• Anonymous
  November 19, 2008
  You've got to be kidding me that you won't be releasing PIE6 as a download for current WM6.1 users. You're stated reasons being that current phones aren't powerful enough. I've just purchased a HTC Touch Diamond which I'm sure is more than powerful enough to run PIE6. You've also got other phones like the Samsung Omnia, the Sony Xperia, HTC Touch, HTC Touch HD etc. etc. that will be more than capable of running PIE6. Please rethink your strategy on this.

• Anonymous
  November 19, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 19, 2008
  C'mon guys....get in the game. Over the air firmware updates and application downloads are available from both Google and Apple........why is this so hard? Look at this thread. Can someone send this to Ballmer please. You have had an outcry from the community to make the IE update available to current Windows Mobile users. You are completely crucified in tech blogs across the internet. I've stuck with windows mobile over the years hoping you could turn the corner but again and again i'm disappointed. Sad to say you are close to losing another customer.

• Anonymous
  November 19, 2008
  well, im about done with windows mobile. I don't expect to have to buy another 400 dollar piece of hardware every time they get thier mobile operating system closer to where it should be in the first place. I'll stick with skyfire for now, and when it comes time for an upgrade discount, ill definately stay away from windows mobile. My HTC touch is my first and last windows mobile device.

• Anonymous
  November 19, 2008
  What a joke. Do they realise cells come on 12-18 month contracts, and current buyers of WinMo will be showing their friends their current pathetic IEMobile experience in 18 months time, while Android and iPhone users will be laughing in their faces with their updated May 2010 browsers. It does nothing for the WinMo Lifecycle, and only aids its permanent decline.

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 20, 2008
  Just look at Microsoft stock price and Apple's price! Microsoft needs to get in the game! GM,Ford and chrysler are failing for the same reason. Your customers will only buy substandard products for so long. Apple has sold over ten million phones in just over eighteen months! Now you have Android gearing up to take a piece of the pie. Also you have RIM starting to make a big come back. I listen to podcast from Mobility Today, Windows weekly and some other, they are to the point of just hammering Windows mobile, suggesting that WM is just too painful to use in its current state. I love my HTC Diamond but I find myself going for my Iphone more and more. Mr. Ballmer you need to get some fresh blood in the WM team!! Your Zune player failed for the same reason! I hear from friends all the time “ why are you still using windows mobile”  my answer, ahhh I don’t know! Good luck Microsoft!!!

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 23, 2008
  well, i love my phone(hp ipaq500), i love to use wifi and browse the web in my home, but mmm, i will continue using Opera Mini!  the best, SMALL, FAST, EASY-TO-USE browser! and also "Iris Browser" rocks! runs good and continues getting better! Microsoft please look at other browsers and you will find out that this is #@&! :P ... next time i will buy a G1 or any non-windows mobile device.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2008
  I have an Orange SPV M5000, I think at the moment its running Mobile 5 although im not to sure. I would like to upgrade the OS to mobile 6, but I have know idea where to get it. Could anybody help me please? I know that it will run the OS. Thank You in advance.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 24, 2008
  HI again, i vote for free updates! Microsoft, why when you turn on your wm phone, you notice than you only have 20 mb free of RAM?? where the other 20 mb went? that's a question i been trying to answer... Why i can't choose what programs run in the background when my mobile boots up?? Well i agree with Per Hansen... normal mobile phones that almost don't have a OS, call and send sms faster than WM phones. Just please let us download your OS free or updates or at least let us buy a CD with WM OS... I would prefer i flexible OS with more useful features and low memory/processor use.. just optimize your code Microsoft!!

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2008
  Hello WM team, please, tell us what are your planning to do.

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 25, 2008
  All I can say to everyone complaining here, is XDA DEVELOPERS. The amazing folks over there have ported Windows Mobile 6/6.1 to previously WinMo 5 only phones, have already ported the new IE Mobile 6 to Windows Mobile 6.1 devices (umm, clearly it does run properly on "previous generation" devices, but thanks for lying to us msft developers), and much much more. And I agree, it's so sad to see my preferred mobile platform slowly dying compared to iPhone/Blackberry platforms. Where MSFT drops the ball, xda-devlopers picks it up and runs. Oh, and read the rules and regulations before posting. And donate!!!

• Anonymous
  November 25, 2008
  Everyone, It is just plain sad to see MS updates are in the hands of third parties (XDA), and even more sad that users has to turn to XDA to get these updates. Dirk, I have exactly the same opinion, it is just a matter of time before users will look elsewhere - there is absolutely no reason to stick with MS, if the parole is "go out and use 400-500 bucks on a new handset, we have a upgraded our browser, but the phone is still plain slow". Users will think, "well Apple works pretty good, Android and RIM too - why would I even consider MS?". Where is the edge? Where are features that will make me re-consider buying an Apple/Android/RIM phone? Where is the winner-mentality? Please convince me. I guess the last 3-4 years has not been MS years (thinking about Vista and Windows Mobile). Khush (or any Microsoft official spokesman) please let us know where things are moving.

• Anonymous
  November 26, 2008
  Get real. We've tested this POC in WM 6.1 Professional and there's absolutely NO WAY this thing is anything like the desktop version. It can't handle fixed position web sites and continues to cram .NET-based panels and so on over on the left side. With all the $ MSoft has, why can't they get a team that can simply compare the mobile IE with the desktop version visually and ensure the mobile version works. More garbage at great cost - sorry, but this is useless compared to Opera Mini.

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2008
  I would vote for

• SkyDrive to Windows Mobile, but easy to setup.
• The ability to select a default location to save information, pictures, videos, contacts and more (such as to SkyDrive) - Users can pay e.g. 5 dollars/year to use this feature and avoid ads on their mobile.
• When taking a picture on the mobile it should be instantly published to selected social networks of the users' choice, e.g. facebook, myspace, personal homepage, blog or SkyDrive. Auto-geotagging the picture if GPS is present, and then sharing the pictures on Photosynth.com. This would be very cool. Something like this would definitely attract users to the Windows Mobile platform - just ->remember<- that everything should be very simple and fast - at the end of day, most users aren't techies, they just want cool features and nice UI's.

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 27, 2008
  Khush, my observation on why Windows Mobile and IE Mobile are not available as a separate download or update has little to do with the need for more powerful, advanced devices but rather because upgrades and updates for the mobile platform are not within the province of Microsoft but are decisions made by the equipment providers. I own an HP IPAQ 210 PDA that is more than capable of handling the requirements of this latest update but HP did not allow the upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 and is unlikely to permit 6.14. The decision seems to lie with the equipment providers and not with Microsoft and has more to do with bottom lines than a need for more powerful equipment or satisfied customers.

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 28, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 28, 2008
  Do we have a download for mobile 6 or do I have to but a new phone to get it

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2008
  Stop IE 6!!! This is the WORST browser with the WORST rendering engine! IE 6 MUST DIE!!!

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 29, 2008
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  December 01, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2008
  It seems like it does not have VML support. While at it, why wouldnt you include VML in it?

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2008
  Since when is IE6 "next generation"? And you wonder why people would rather have an iPhone...

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2008
  Its kind of silly that everyone is reading Internet Explorer Moble 6 as Internet Explorer 6. But I agree with most the others that say you should make it downloadable for existing phones. The current version of IEM that is on my phone is one of the largest reasons I am thinking of switching to either an iPhone or the new google phone. And I have little desire to buy a new phone for this, since it is under a year old.

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2008
  Remember when people paid for browsers rather than using the free Microsoft one? Sounds familiar - now where is my credit card, I need to visit that opera site.

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2008
  i think now in windows mobile we have like 5 browsers or more to choose, UCWEB, Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, Iris Browser, Skyfire... and all of them are pretty good, they don't ask for new devices!(skyfire specially)

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2008
  hi guys i am using htc p3450.i need to upgrade internet explore 5.5. can anybody give idea to upgarde ie .any free download site's is there? is it possible to upgrade to this mobile. please give solution. bye...

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2008
  Does anyone still use IE Mobile?  Opera and Skyfire are soooo much better

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2008
  Was excited about new PIE, I am not impressed on the requirements for new phones. I was looking for a good browser for my SLOW? Dell Axim X51v 624mhz PDA. These new phones coming must be 1gig cpus.Hows the battery life?

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 05, 2008
  HATE HATE HATE this idea, assuming this is a mobile version of IE6.  Are you serious!? This is going to be the most broken browser ever.  Then chance of me testing my sites in an IE Mobile 6 emulator is ZERO.  Acheive standards compliance or go home.

• Anonymous
  December 06, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 07, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 07, 2008
  This is funny, why this page is loading correctly in Opera?! I thought this page was created for IE! xD Get a new browser microsoft and change its name, to something more intelligent "internet explorer??"

• Anonymous
  December 07, 2008
  That zoom in zoom out functions loks a lot like Deepfish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfish It's no more available but it was an interesting project from Microsoft Labs I used a couple of years ago...

• Anonymous
  December 15, 2008
  What are you people @ Microsoft doing, living in a cave? Do you not realize that IE6 is the most despised browser out there by designers and developers? Many in the community won't even support it anymore! Great idea, bring back a mobile version of an archaic browser that doesn't support web standards. Poor, poor windows mobile users...

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  December 17, 2008
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  December 19, 2008
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  December 20, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 22, 2008
  I don't want to beat a dead horse, but bringing the IE6 rendering engine into the fold for a NEW product is not acceptable. You can read more of my thoughts here: into http://www.techurbia.com/2008/12/new-ie-mobile-based-on-ie-6-really-4.html

• Anonymous
  December 23, 2008
  Congratulations for the effort of leveraging the mobile experience to the desktop one. Although IE6 suffers from several known issues and I generally agree with many comments in this thread, I also guess that this might have been due to a much lesser memory usage when comparing to contemporary rendering engines (at least, comparing to IE7 and IE8). Nevertheless, I tend to agree that this might be the business-happy, safe decision to render nowadays sites flawlessly. ;-) I've performing some experiences [1] with qooxdoo [2] (a well known AJAX framework) and would like to state that, overall, things worked out far better than I expected. :-) Nevertheless, from the already referred experiments, a bug in IEM6 was derived: HTTP redirects (302) fail for long URLs. This happens whenever the target redirection URL is longer than 64 characters in length, and usually results in deceiving HTTP not found (404) pages. Hope this helps, Helder Magalhães [1] http://www.nabble.com/qooxdoo-on-mobile-devices-td19569395.html#a21149998 [2] http://qooxdoo.org/

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 28, 2008
  Noticed that, in my previous comment [1], I forgot to mention that the redirection failure happens due to URL truncation (to the referred 64 characters). That's why HTTP 404 errors will often occur, unless if (by a coincidence), a document resides in the truncated URL, which will be a lot worse (naturally confusing/deceiving the user). Regards, Helder Magalhães [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2008/11/11/internet-explorer-mobile-6.aspx#9250710

• Anonymous
  December 29, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 31, 2008
  The new IE will be avaliable to use with Windows Mobile 5 too?

• Anonymous
  January 05, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 06, 2009
  @Werner Ruotsalainen It's not the final product. Give your "test" a rest already.

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2009
  Is there anu posible way to download internet explorer 6 or 7 or maybe firefox2 on my nokia e71. My web mail on Scalix suported only those browsers. Tnx, Dex

• Anonymous
  January 18, 2009
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• Anonymous
  January 19, 2009
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• Anonymous
  February 10, 2009
  well, i wish i could get firefox on my wm phone, i find that microsoft rarely makes new apps from scratch, they always, change the skin of IE and thats a new version!... why don't you make a new version and call differently? IE9, IE11, IE15, IE78, ??

• Anonymous
  February 26, 2009
  Think about trying Torch Mobile's Iris Browser until something better is released.  Iris Browser has improved immensely and shows what a little innovation can do when it's actually a focal point of your programming.  Microsoft, you are losing me from your mobile offerings very soon if you can't fix your desires to only release OEM preinstalled versions of major apps such as PIE.  PIE6 is not much better than PIE.  Iris Browser looks to have leaped all the self-sufficient browsers available at this time (Opera Mobile, NetFront, etc.)

• Anonymous
  March 18, 2009
  Hi WM team, I'm a developer of windows mobile application. Now I found the "window.external.favorites"&"window.external.history" objects could not be used any more on mobile internet explorer 6, could you please tell me how to do with the JS. Thanks,

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2009
  Could you at least add base64 image support like IE 8.0 has? It would save a lot.

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2009
  You do not give the information we want!

• Anonymous
  May 27, 2009
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• Anonymous
  June 25, 2009
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• Anonymous
  June 30, 2009
  As long as IEM has so many bugs and is incompatible with desktop browsers I will recommend Access Netfront to all Windows Mobile Users IEM >6.1.4 is unable to open localhost web pages.

• Anonymous
  July 08, 2009
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