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How is this any different then RIM, Nokia, or Palm? Let's face everyone got caught with there pants down. Win Mo 7 is not just a new os it a new way of doing business for Microsoft they are going to handle the os on the phone rather then passing a kit to hardware vendors/carriers ( Zune marketplace offering, Apps Store, live space, wm device center, hotmail etc) and somehow do this with out alienating all their partners.

One could also argue that the Iphone os wasn't as feature rich as windows mobile. They haven't been rewriting any os but rather adding additional feature to it. So by the time Win Mo 7 does hit the streets it should be pretty close in touch/media features as the Iphone OS. What MS really needs to do is streamline all there live services ( Zune marketplace offering, Apps Store, live space, wm device center, hotmail, xbox live etc) you have to make the ecosystem as coherent and simple as possible. That's where Apple really has made the difference it's ecosystem (itunes) is simple.