Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month. There’s also talk of those previously leaked WinMo6.5 screenshots actually being legitimate WM6.5 concept screenshots. Just to refresh your memory, here are the three codenamed services:
SkyMarket: an AppStore for Windows Mobile devices that goes beyond the current Windows Mobile Catalog. It is primarily aimed at “developers wishing to distribute and monetize their Windows Mobile applications.”
The bigger news comes in the form of SkyBox — imagine as “one cloud to rule them all.” You’d get automatic backup and restore services, cloud syncing with your contacts, calendars, pictures and the like. Nothing groundbreaking there, except that it’s Microsoft offering all of this in a tidy little package, and we’d expect it to be pretty slick. What is pretty interesting is that Microsoft would offer SkyBox on devices that don’t run Windows Mobile. The SkyMarket app store, however, would still be limited to WinMo devices, which makes sense.
Finally there’s SkyLine, SkyLine will be unveiled as the enterprise-strength version of SkyBox that allows companies to setup Microsoft Exchange hosting on their own domains.
No word on pricing or release dates yet.
