[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/making-windows-phone-7/all/1' target='_blank'>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010...s-phone-7/all/1</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Microsoft staff refer to December 2008 as "The Reset" - the month that the company killed all progress on its Windows phone project and started over. It's a measure of how deep a hole Microsoft had dug itself into that the employees interviewed by Wired.com were unanimous in calling this a good thing. Even though the software titan had a head start on phone software beginning with Windows CE back in 1996, the subsequent Windows Mobile OS suffered from steep declines in market share when pitted against more user-friendly phones, like the iPhone and the Android-powered Droid."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1293838017.usr1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>This article was published back at the beginning of November, but it's an interesting read - especially for those of you out there who are angry at Microsoft for not reaching feature parity with a nine-year old OS with version 1.0 of a new OS designed, coded, and shipped in 12 months. Give it a read.</p>

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/making-windows-phone-7/all/1' target='_blank'>http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010...s-phone-7/all/1</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Microsoft staff refer to December 2008 as "The Reset" - the month that the company killed all progress on its Windows phone project and started over. It's a measure of how deep a hole Microsoft had dug itself into that the employees interviewed by Wired.com were unanimous in calling this a good thing. Even though the software titan had a head start on phone software beginning with Windows CE back in 1996, the subsequent Windows Mobile OS suffered from steep declines in market share when pitted against more user-friendly phones, like the iPhone and the Android-powered Droid."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1293838017.usr1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>This article was published back at the beginning of November, but it's an interesting read - especially for those of you out there who are angry at Microsoft for not reaching feature parity with a nine-year old OS with version 1.0 of a new OS designed, coded, and shipped in 12 months. Give it a read.</p>