Microsoft has been in denial for 2 years
Microsoft just hasn't followed Andy Grove's time-tested motto: only the paranoid survive. I think Microsoft took a look at iPhone and thought it could half-ass its way with WinMo for half a decade. You know, since Apple has always been about sleekness and functionality anyways, that gives Microsoft an excuse to continue to be clunky. iPhone's success must be a fluke, they probably thought. Apple just got lucky. There's nothing to the fact that their SDK is modern and that their AppStore is exactly what developers were looking fore. Bah! Who cares if most of their WinMo developers already switched their focus - WinMo is the hotness!
Gotta keep that WinMo7 info super secret, you know? Because if Apple, Palm, and Google see what we're working on, well that would be terrible! Sorry devs, no future roadmap for you. But here's a new version of Visual Studio that contain nothing more than a slightly updated SDK.
*rolls eyes*
Now Palm pre is going to lock WinMo out of Sprint's market, and Motorola just pulled the rug from under them. Who's left? HTC? They're dating Android now, too.
Maybe Microsoft should release WinMo 6.5. I'm sure new icons and bundling Windows Live Mobile will be a surefire way to trounce the competition. And we'll even get whizzy menus in WinMo 7, I'm sure. And you'll *still* get to code in GDI and Win32. What a treat!
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