Microsoft courts developers for its cellphone system

Despite the wireless industry’s tepid reception to Microsoft’s operating systems for cellphones, the company forged ahead yesterday, releasing several tools to help developers make software compatible with its two mobile-phone operating systems, Smartphone and Pocket PC.

Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates pushed the Smartphone software, which runs on high-end cellphones, to developers at Microsoft’s first Mobility Developer Conference, a gathering that began yesterday as the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association’s annual trade show wrapped up in New Orleans.

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