Microsoft is to release its first server-based tool for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. It has also hinted at a new version of the mobile operating system for release early next year.

I’ve been spoiled by the iPhone. When I was using a Windows Mobile device today browsing the web with the mobile version of Internet Explorer, I was just about ready to throw the phone out the window.

The program, code-named 'Maldives,' looks like an effort to shrink the window between Microsoft's release to manufacturing of Windows Mobile and when it arrives on new devices. In the case of Windows ...