Microsoft has struck a deal with China Mobile, which will make its mobile browser--Internet Explorer (IE) 6 for Windows Mobile—available on the Samsung Omnia handsets the Chinese operator offers to its subscribers. The pairing is quite a coup for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Though the online version of Explorer dominates web surfing, the mobile version is routinely panned by critics as clunky and not very adept at rendering the tinier pages. Last week, it announced an updated version was coming soon, and released emulator images to allow developers to conduct testing. An early review by Ars Technica found that the new version was an improvement, but not as substantial as one would expect the software giant capable of implementing.

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