Not long ago, AT&T executive Roger Smith was hinting that his company would prefer to support one type of mobile software which was widely interpreted to mean that AT&T might eventually set their sights solely on Symbian, which came out comfortably over Windows Mobile this year, according to research firm Canalys. Since then, a bit of gloom has just kept spreading through the Windows Mobile news world.

BusinessWeek have an article up that outlines things they feel that Microsoft needs to fix in order to stay in the fast-paced mobile game. They break it into three main necessities: touch displays, mobile cloud computing, and its own app store. Windows Mobile is seen, by some research firm execs, as “chasing the market” but many, like me, worry they aren’t chasing fast enough.

While most of us would instantly argue that Windows Mobile has a touch interface, BusinessWeek (among others) consider most Windows Mobile devices to have ’stylus’ interfaces.

More on how Windows Mobile should change to stay in the mobile tech race