Here's my point: in the face of the iphone and Google's Android are we seeing MS focusing more on improving its own OS? No, we still have crappy PIE, poor memory management, crappy battery life, STILL NO NATIVE CLOSE BUTTON, basic phone functions missing (no redial on busy), incomplete IMAP support. And I'll mention this again, a few days ago I plugged my Artemis into my pc and tried to sync some music with WMP11, my storage card is STILL not recognised.
Having separate development teams is no excuse - there should be tighter intergration within MS in mobile development. Windows Mobile is a MS product and should be the focus for all their mobile dev teams FIRST - then they can obviously expand to other platforms. MS has shown, time and time again that Windows Mobile is an afterthought and is usually the last platform to see any improvements. As Rocco Augusto says, how long was it before Office came to the Smartphone?
Here's one item to look for - Voice Command on my Artemis works - apart from announcing the caller name over BT. Who wants to bet that when its released for the iphone everything will work properly but the WM version will still have the same limitation?
Windows Mobile should be standing head and shoulders above all other mobile OS'es after so many years on the market, and MS should be giving it every advantage they can. IMO that doesnt seem to be the case.
@Birdsoft - the iphone may not have taken over the world (yet) but here's a quick question - if anyone sees you using a PPC device what are the odds they ask you "is that an iphone?"
