Our friend Theo Valich over at BrightSideofNews recently posted a column about an interesting bit of news that might catch the attention of Windows Mobile owners and prospective consumers. In the least bit of detail, Microsoft has unofficially stated that “we won't be seeing Windows Mobile 7 before Mobile World Congress, Barcelona in February 2011.”

According to sources from Microsoft, Nvidia, Lenovo, Qualcomm, TI, Nokia and HTC, the next-generation mobile OS will be delayed indefinitely until sometime in the first half of 2011 due to radical trending shifts in the telecommunications industry. As it seems, many mobile vendors and manufacturers have migrated to Google’s open-source Android operating system this year, leaving behind a large and uncertain future for the Microsoft platform, which literally rests in the success of the Zune and its x86 platform license.

All in all, 2010 will be an interesting year for Microsoft’s mobile developers as they are now competing with an increasingly growing Android market, the Jobs Mob and its highly successful App Store, and the emergence of the tablet revolution powered by Nvidia’s low-power, multi-market Tegra platform.