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Originally Posted by jimtravis
Don't doubt the horror stories I have seen on the web about WM, but for me, Classic WM is still the most stable of the mobile OS's I use, and still out of the box does more of the things I use than competing platforms.
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Well, I used to feel, "it's not that bad". Then I used an iPhone and a higher end Android device for a while before purchasing the HD2, and truthfully, for me it was "that bad". Maybe I had a bad device, or something, but I was really frustrated by daily slowdowns, and found myself resetting constantly. I was also "trained" to use my finger by the other OSs, so trying to hit the right spot on the HD2 screen's outside of Sense was another downer. Microsoft had to do something, I'm not sure a complete reboot was required, but it probably was easier than trying to completely reskin and rewrite what they already had.
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Originally Posted by jimtravis
Their marketing dept for Classic WM (if they had one) should have been CTRL ALT DEL'd, not the product.
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You make valid points regarding marketing. Microsoft has never been very good at marketing to end-consumers, and really has rarely even tried. I would be willing to venture a guess that their marketing budget is similar to the competitions, though. They just have always preferred to spend their $ on incentives to OEMS and retailers instead of consumer campaigns. The biggest issue is at the corporate level they still really haven't embraced the fact that their customers are the end-user, not the companies that make and market these devices. Until they do that, I think they will continue to see limited success in this space.
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