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WM 6.5 is not all bad. Yes it's "just" some interface tweaking, but I have to say that I do like the improvements, it's not great not even close to iPhone or Pre UI, but with addition stuff from HTC it looks and feels just fine and is quite usable. And I'll be quite happy when 6.5 upgrade is available for my Touch Pro 2. That's one thing.
But on another side it's just pathetic that the biggest and most successful software company in the world is not capable of producing a really compelling mobile OS, especially considering that they had 2.5+ years since the iPhone and all they managed to produce in that time is WM 6.5. If you look at it this way, Microsoft looks really really sad compared to competition. I mean even if they would start from nothing in July 2007 they should have produced something better than a new today screen, a new unlock screen, a different look of application launcher and a bad port of an old desktop browser. But they didn't start from nothing they already had an OS (windows CE) and all they needed was to create a usable, good looking UI with some good applications. One can only think that either WM team is completely incompetent or they only have a one or two developers doing everything. It really shows how MS didn't (still doesn't?) care about mobile OS and how they were caught with "their pants down" and then continued to ignore the competition.
I think all this bashing is good. I hope they finally realize that they need to do something good and fast, or on the other hand they can drop the whole mobile OS and become a classic case of "how a company shoot itself in the foot by not innovating and ignoring the competition", together with Palm.
As for Jason - that's just stupid, to leave someone like him and consequently all the community behind the PPC Thoughts "out of the loop" is really really dumb. Jason, I don't know about you, but, but since you obviously don't owe anything to MS the way they treated you, you could flash one of the newest builds of Wm 6.5.1 from XDA-Developers - the new new UI features look nice ;-) I for one am pretty convinced that all the "leaks" of new ROM builds there are intentional, either directly by Microsoft or by HTC but with Microsoft's silent OK. After all this is probably the best beta testing community in the world.
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