It’s a question for which Microsoft’s never given me a straight answer: During the next seven months, why would anybody buy a Windows Mobile phone when Windows Phone 7 is launching for the holidays?

Once again, I tried it out Friday on Todd Brix, Microsoft’s senior director for Mobile Platform Services Product Management, during a phone interview.

“People have to obviously decide whether they want to wait for Windows Phone 7 or buy now,” he said.

The future will always bring new technologies, he added. Well, duh – but the exception in this case is that Microsoft, in unveiling Windows Phone 7 eight months before its scheduled release and on Thursday confirming that Windows Mobile apps won’t work on the new OS, effectively squashed demand for the OS it actually currently sells.

I rephrased the question for Brix.

“If they want a great e-mail experience on Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile provides that,” he said.

Brix went on to add that Windows Marketplace for Mobile offers many productivity and business-oriented apps, suggesting Windows Mobile will be positioned as an affordable enterprise solution.
Excellent. Some good detail.

I rephrased the question again.

“Windows Mobile is a very competitive solution for a lot of things people are trying to do with smartphones today,” Brix…

Microsoft will be making an announcement at Mobile World Congress on February 15 to reveal Windows Phone 7. The web is abuzz with what Windows Phone 7 will feature. The main theme is that Windows Phone will be more like the Zune and integrate Xbox compatibility. Super geeks are disxapointed that it lack flash support, multi-tasking and backward compatibility.

The latest leaks from PPC Geeks suggest these details:

* UI-The user interface, called “Metro” will look the OS on the Zune and have full Zune integration with Zune-style syncing.
* Full Xbox integration.
* Social Networking support.
* No flash support yet.
* App installation is from the Marketplace only, not from SD storage card.
* No multi-tasking of apps, apps will pause when another is launched.
* Marketplace support for “try” before you buy and API.
* No backward compatibility for apps, developers will have to develop for the OS.
* No added interfaces on top such as TouchSense.

I wan to to ,it is a  cell phone?