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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I sometimes think that, but then I meet with the teams and the people involved and they definitely are passionate about making the product better.
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The teams and individuals may be passionate but do they have the power to implement changes/improvements? Whenever a cool app from MS is released it always seems to be isolated from the rest of the OS, for example Windows Live Search offers identical featurs to Google maps plus voice activated searching but you dont see any intergration into the OS functions and its hardly offered as part of the value added apps on new devices yet Gmaps is touted so much you would not think there was another app with the same features. There has been one attempt at intergrating it with another app, in this case it was announced that Copilot 7 would connect to Live Search and allow you to map addresses directly but so far this appears to be another vapourware feature. This separation continues to hurt WM and mobileme has highlighted this once again. Its even more ironic since this service is built on Exchange Activesync,
I sorely wish I could give the WM division of MS a good kick in the pants, how much longer will they sit back and watch their competition gain market share while they actively give away their best features?!