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Originally Posted by efjay
And cue the bashers saying WM is crap, too late, etc in 3...2...1...
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I would hope with the recent slip up from Motorola mentioning that Microsoft is working on a Windows Mobile 6.5 because they realize that the user experience isn't up to par with the competition would give the mobile world a
little faith. This is do or die time now and for the fact that they're releasing Windows 7 which has reports of drastically better user experience, around the same time as Windows Mobile 7, it just seems logical that they would put that much care into their mobile platform to give users a more converged experience.
Microsoft is at a turning point as a company. There is no way to recover from the backlash of Vista, even though in reality it is a pretty stable OS, and the only way to move past the negative collective conscious is to bring the users something different and more polished. Windows 7, from their videos, looks to be incredibly polished. From what I read, Office 14 is shaping up to be pretty polished as well. I have complete faith that Microsoft will put that same level of attention to detail in the upcoming versions of Windows Mobile, which is arguably the missing link in Microsoft's recent move toward the cloud computing environment. Microsoft is banking on a move to the clouds and they need to seriously fix their mobile platform to do so.
Before the iPhone came out, Windows Mobile was arguably up there at the top of the mobile world. Windows Mobile was exciting. The iPhone changed the game and while Microsoft has been slow to play catchup, if they have shown us anything throughout the years it is that they are really good at taking something on the market and making it better than what currently exists. They aren't the most original company, but they're very talented at what they do. Windows Mobile will be great again, I hope, and for the first time in a long time I am really excited to be a Windows Mobile enthusiast.
