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I think a better question would be "Is Microsoft Killing Windows Mobile?" Microsoft's complacency has opened the market to Android, Palm, Apple, RIM etc.
Microsoft needs to start treating the mobile device division like an actual mobile device division, not just another software division in a monolithic software company. They simply are not evolving the operating system fast enough to keep up with the rest of the mobile world. We've been hearing about WM7 for years. When you consider the size of the OS is less than 128 MB in size, what the heck could they be coding? They don't write the hardware drivers, leaving that to the OEMs...how the heck can 128 MB of code take years and years to write, especially considering they weren't starting from scratch?
Even with stiff competition from Apple and RIM over the last 2 years, Microsoft has continued to plod along at snails pace, announcing and pre-announcing OS upgrades years before we actually see devices running said OS. I almost have to laugh everytime I see another person say "wait until WM7". By the time we can buy a WM7 device, Apple will probably be on the 4th version of their device, Google will most likely have released 2-3 significant upgrades, etc. Lord knows how long we'll have to wait after WM7 to see any significant upgrades, based upon MS previous history, it will probably be about 2018!!
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