[efjay]

Atrocious treatment Jason and as far as MS catering to the "big blogs", I wonder if they feel they made a good investment.

Sad thing is, the leaked builds are better than the version officially released today and one wonders why MS didnt push those changes through faster. Overall though, if I was a member of the WM team I would be hanging my head in shame and in all honesty, they should all be sacked as they are obviously not doing what they are being paid for.

I can imagine the response from MS to today's release: keep a low profile and make no mention of WM for a period of time, when questioned in an interview spout the company line (part of our overall strategy), wait another year and release another lackluster upgrade with pomp and ceremony while the industry looks briefly then dismisses them. Similar to the announcement of PIE6 which is only now beginning to surface on devices and is immediately discounted in favour of Opera Mobile.

I would dearly love to see all news sites, blogs, forums have a media blackout on anything WM for 1 day to send a message to MS on how disappointing MS has been in the mobile space. It seems something drastic has to be done to get MS to get their act together and address WM's shortcomings.